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Trivialism
- ggm 5y agoThe Trivium was a field of study for students at university in the middle ages. "Trivial" has also been said to refer to something only of interest to a student of the trivium. I'm surprised wikipedia doesn't have that theory.
- redis_mlc 5y agoGetting your money's worth out of your liberal arts education today? :)
- denton-scratch 5y agoIt's a bad article. The trivium was rhetoric, grammar, and logic - the basic tools of reasoning and argument. It formed a basis for further study; the quadrivium relied on knowledge of the trivium, and consisted of astronomy, geometry, arithmetic and music. The trivium was "trivial" because it was "Knowledge 101" - a foundation course, as it were. A proposition is trivially true if it can be seen to be true merely by inspecting the proposition, and without reference to real-world facts. If all statements are true by definition, you don't even need to inspect them. So I guess "trivialism" is the position that all statements are trivially true.
- greyface- 5y agoGP: Is Eris true? M2: Everything is true. GP: Even false things? M2: Even false things are true. GP: How can that be? M2: I don't know man, I didn't do it.
- contravariant 5y agoWhat forsaken rabbit hole have you brought me to now?
- User23 5y agoThe Principia Discordia[1]. [1] https://principiadiscordia.com/book/6.php https://principiadiscordia.com/book/6.php
- dddw 5y agoFnord
- User23 5y ago
- 9wzYQbTYsAIc 5y ago^
- whereistimbo 5y agoImagine that, you've got some brain disease that makes you think that true things and false things are true at the same time. No amount of brain convincing solve that. And you went crazy over that. There is no escape.
- whereistimbo 5y agoShould be: M2: Something inside my brain said that, so it must be true.
- lupire 5y agoTevye the Dairyman was famously at times a trivialist.