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vacuous truth

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.54 in modern English

Syllables
vac-u-ous truth
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A proposition which is true only because it is a conditional statement with a necessarily false premise, or which asserts a property of all elements of an empty domain of discourse.

Inflected Forms

vacuous truths (plural)

Phrases

principle of explosion

Frequently Paired Words

principle of explosion

Questions

What does vacuous truth mean?
A proposition which is true only because it is a conditional statement with a necessarily false premise, or which asserts a property of all elements of an empty domain of discourse.

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