truism
/ˈtruːɪz(ə)m
/noun
1A statement that is obviously true and says nothing new or interesting: the truism that you get what you pay for...
- It is a truism to say that humanity is gone out of journalism.
- It is a truism to say that we describe the world through the lens our own experience.
- It is a truism to say that fieldwork is a prerequisite to any sort of research on Neotropical birds.
Synonyms
platitude, commonplace, cliché, hackneyed/trite/banal/overworked saying, stock phrase, banality, old chestnut, bromide;
maxim, axiom, saw
1.1 Logic A proposition that states nothing beyond what is implied by any of its terms.The proof of the Proposition shows that the common truisms are precisely the elements of and unions of elements of, so any commonly known event is the consequence of a common truism....
- No one denies the truism that the dreamer cannot really connect his dream with his waking past, which is one reading of this response.
- Consider, however, the following four truisms about correlation.
Derivatives
truistic
- What I resolutely oppose is an unreflected resentment that offers no prospect for creativity or initiative, and contents itself with truistic descriptions of a necessarily inconsistent world.
- Evidentialism is logically, psychologically, and, no doubt, historically prior to any such system; it is a truistic, pre-theoretic, typically implicit canon of rationality itself.
- More typically, philosophers accept the truistic dictum I articulated above, and then proceed to interpret it in terms that only make sense if the hydraulic conception is implicitly taken for granted.