Truism: alternatives and connections

That which affirms as opposed to that which denies; an affirmative proposition; that side of question which affirms or maintains the p…

To own or acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion; as, to allow a right; to allow a claim; to allow the tr…

Self-evident; intuitively true; evident beyond contradiction.

A reason or reasons offered in proof, to induce belief, or convince the mind; reasoning expressed in words; as, an argument about, con…

An idea treated as true so an argument or analysis can continue.

A self-evident and necessary truth, or a proposition whose truth is so evident as first sight that no reasoning or demonstration can m…

An abridgment or concise statement of a client's case, made out for the instruction of counsel in a trial at law. This word is applied…

To overcome by argument; to force to yield assent to truth; to satisfy by proof.

proof by a process of argument or a series of proposition proving an asserted conclusion

The act of disputing; a reasoning or argumentation in opposition to something, or on opposite sides; controversy in words; verbal cont…

That which makes evident or manifest; that which furnishes, or tends to furnish, proof; any mode of proof; the ground of belief or jud…

Clear to the vision; especially, clear to the understanding, and satisfactory to the judgment; as, the figure or color of a body is ev…

To test by any appropriate method; to inspect carefully with a view to discover the real character or state of; to subject to inquiry…

a logical quantifier of a proposition that asserts the existence of at least one thing for which the proposition is true

a logical quantifier of a proposition that asserts the existence of at least one thing for which the proposition is true

The assent of the mind to the statement or proposition of another, on the ground of the manifest truth of what he utters; firm and ear…

Destitute of help or strength; unable to help or defend one's self; needing help; feeble; weak; as, a helpless infant.

A supposition; a proposition or principle which is supposed or taken for granted, in order to draw a conclusion or inference for proof…