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Definition of Falsism
1. n. That which is evidently false; an assertion or statement the falsity of which is plainly apparent; -- opposed to truism.
Definition of Falsism
1. Noun. A claim that is self-evidently false, commonly used a rhetorical device. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Falsism
1. something which is obviously false [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Falsism
Literary usage of Falsism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Higher Schools and Universities in Germany by Matthew Arnold (1874)
"Our modern Liberals, on the other hand, are for governing Ireland in obedience
to a maxim which turns out, when we examine it, to be a falsism ; current ..."
2. Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society by London Mathematical Society (1891)
"It is to be observed that to regard a statement as true is merely to regard it
as a truism, and to regard it as fahe is to regard it as a falsism. ..."
3. Problems of Life and Mind by George Henry Lewes (1875)
"... incapacity to know what Matter is must be either a truism or a falsism : a
truism if the term signifies unqualified Existence, a substratum or Noumenon, ..."
4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1922)
"... but when we do perform such a logical analysis we must not forget that such
an experiment implies the falsism that the mechanisms are both inactive at ..."
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