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(logic) The theory that every proposition and its negation is true. quotations examples
If it is possible for trivialism to be true, it may be false as well as true that all humans are mammals […]
2004, Graham Priest, J. C. Beall, Bradley Armour-Garb, The Law of Non-contradiction: New Philosophical Essays, page 252
This charge of trivialism is also called the principle of explosion […]
2008, Peter Baofu, The future of post-human mathematical logic, page 97
Trivialism is pretty hopeless as a philosophy, although it is very easy to defend/maintain verbally!
2012, Koji Tanaka, Francesco Berto, Edwin Mares, Paraconsistency: Logic and Applications, page 296
A trivial matter or method; a triviality. quotations examples
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 […] ?
1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, (please specify |book=I or IV, or the page)