trivialism

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Etymology

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From trivial +‎ -ism.

Noun

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trivialism (countable and uncountable, plural trivialisms)

  1. (logic) The theory that every proposition and its negation is true.
    • 2004, Graham Priest, J. C. Beall, Bradley Armour-Garb, The Law of Non-contradiction: New Philosophical Essays, page 252:
      If it is possible for trivialism to be true, it may be false as well as true that all humans are mammals []
    • 2008, Peter Baofu, The future of post-human mathematical logic, page 97:
      This charge of trivialism is also called the principle of explosion []
    • 2012, Koji Tanaka, Francesco Berto, Edwin Mares, Paraconsistency: Logic and Applications, page 296:
      Trivialism is pretty hopeless as a philosophy, although it is very easy to defend/maintain verbally!
  2. A trivial matter or method; a triviality.
    • 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, (please specify |book=I or IV, or the page):
      When, across the hundredfold poor scepticisms, trivialisms and constitutional cobwebberies of Dryasdust, you catch any glimpse of a William the Conqueror, a Tancred of Hauteville or suchlike, — do you not discern veritably some rude outline of a true God-made King [] ?
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