tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19302130173966456872012-03-20T02:03:49.525-06:00truism of ed orcuttEd Orcutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072069799127687951noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930213017396645687.post-23114026501939288552009-02-28T20:28:00.000-07:002009-10-22T13:10:23.785-06:00From Wikipedia a <b>truism</b> is a claim that is so obvious or self-evident as to be hardly worth mentioning, except as a reminder or as a rhetorical or literary device.<br /><br />In philosophy, a sentence which asserts incomplete truth conditions for a proposition may be regarded as a truism. An example of such a sentence would be: "Under appropriate conditions, the sun rises." Without contextual support — a statement of what those appropriate conditions are — the sentence is true but uncontestable. A statement which is true by definition ("All cats are mammals.") would also be considered a truism.<br /><br />The word may be used to disguise the fact that a proposition is really just an opinion, especially in rhetoric.<br /><br />My point you ask? Herein lay my opinions which are likely obvious to everyone else. Perhaps at best this make me a <i>prophet of the bleeding obvious</i>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1930213017396645687-2311402650193928855?l=edoism.orcutt.org' alt='' /></div>Ed Orcutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072069799127687951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930213017396645687.post-55952769060169732662009-02-27T11:18:00.000-07:002009-10-22T13:10:23.786-06:00Don't shake the chicken, unless you want scrambled eggs.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1930213017396645687-5595276906016973266?l=edoism.orcutt.org' alt='' /></div>Ed Orcutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072069799127687951noreply@blogger.com0