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Definition of Falsisms
1. falsism [n] - See also: falsism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Falsisms
Literary usage of Falsisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society by London Mathematical Society (1891)
"Truisms and falsisms. 116. Here our constants z and z' are a ... Logically speaking,
all truisms are equivalent, as also all falsisms. 117. ..."
2. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1917)
"... were so widely diffused in the middle of the nineteenth century that at the
end thereof they came to be regarded as truisms and almost "falsisms. ..."
3. A History of Latin Literature from Ennius to Boethius by George Augustus Simcox (1883)
"... retails to Horace in Ennius or Lucilius; to judge by Pliny and Athenaeus, they
are a collection of truisms and falsisms, like the precepts of ..."
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