truism的词源解释,truism来源

"不言而喻的真理"，1708年，源自 true（形容词）+ -ism； 首次出现在斯威夫特的作品中。

A truism in the strict sense (to which it might be well, but is perhaps now impossible, to confine it) is a statement in which the predicate gives no information about the subject that is not implicit in the definition of the subject itself. What is right ought to be done ; since the right is definable as that which ought to be done, this means What ought to be done ought to be done, i.e., it is a disguised identical proposition, or a truism. [Fowler, 1926]

严格意义上的 truism（如果可以将其限制在这个范围内，但现在可能不可能）是一种陈述，其中谓词对主语的信息与主语本身的定义中隐含的信息相同。What is right ought to be done； 由于 right 可以定义为 that which ought to be done，这意味着 What ought to be done ought to be done，即它是一个伪装的同一命题，或者说是一个真理。[福勒，1926]

该词起源时间：1708年