“falsism”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

falsism

释义

falsism|ˈfɔːlsɪz(ə)m, ˈfɒlsɪz(ə)m|
[f. false a. + -ism.]
1. a. ‘An assertion or statement, the falsity of which is plainly apparent’ (W.). b. A platitude that has not even the merit of being true.
The word owes its meaning to the antithesis with truism; hence the two-fold application.
1835J. S. Mill Diss. & Disc. (1859) I. 109 This dictum..is, as Coleridge would say, a falsism.1840Ibid. 209 Books like Mr. Colton's ‘Lacon’—centos of trite truisms and trite falsisms pinched into epigrams.1847Lewes Hist. Philos. (1853) 160 If so, it is a truism, if not, a falsism.1855― Goethe II. vi. vii. 313 The ideas are no longer novel; they appear truisms or perhaps falsisms.
2. nonce-use. Falsity of representation, conceived as erected into a systematic principle of art.
1883M. Blind Life Geo. Eliot 68 Realism is thus the basis of all Art, and its antithesis is not Idealism but Falsism.

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