Meaning of untruism | Babel Free

Definitions

Something not true; a false statement.

Examples

“No one but a preaching clergyman can revel in platitudes, truisms, and untruisms, and yet receive⟳, as his undisputed privilege, the same respectful demeanour as though words of impassioned eloquence, or persuasive logic, fell from his lips.”

“Parmenides' philosophy rests, if I am right, on an untruism; it is some slight consolation that his was by no means the last⟳ system to be built on such a sandy foundation.”

“This fickle oscillation is often precipitated by the chameleon-like quality of 'untruisms': 'An untruism is an ambiguous sentence”

“Aristotle's implicit totalitarianism rests ultimately on a questionable inference from a metaphysical untruism.”

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