different between terms vs trivialism

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t??mz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /t?mz/

Noun

terms

1. plural of term

Verb

terms

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of term

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Swedish

Noun

terms

1. indefinite genitive singular of term

English

Etymology

trivial +? -ism

Noun

trivialism (countable and uncountable, plural trivialisms)

1. A trivial matter or method; a triviality.

   • When, across the hundredfold poor scepticisms, trivialisms and constitutional cobwebberies of Dryasdust, you catch any glimpse of a William the Conqueror, a Tancred of Hauteville or suchlike, — do you not discern veritably some rude outline of a true God-made King […] ?

2. (logic) The theory that every proposition and its negation is true.
   • 2004, Graham Priest, J. C. Beall, Bradley Armour-Garb, The Law of Non-contradiction: New Philosophical Essays (page 252)

     If it is possible for trivialism to be true, it may be false as well as true that all humans are mammals […]

   • 2012, Koji Tanaka, Francesco Berto, Edwin Mares, Paraconsistency: Logic and Applications (page 296)

     Trivialism is pretty hopeless as a philosophy, although it is very easy to defend/maintain verbally!