Talk:Truism

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[edit] Deletion, Creation, Undeletion, Merge (December 2003)

At the beginning of December, this article was deleted without due process. On 00:27, 7 Dec 2003, S1rkull, recreated it, apparently without knowing the history. Brion restored the Page history. The next step is to merge the deleted version with S1rkull's contribution.Peak 08:00, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I guess it's a '[truism]' that you can't fight city hall. If "truism" is not just a word but a worthy topic in itself, I guess there should be an article about it. Personally, I just thought it's a word and should be in the Wikitionary. But maybe the concept itself is worthy of deeper description than a mere dictionary definition. I guess it's a *gasp* stub!!! --Uncle Ed 15:05, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Prevention is better than cure

Question: How can a phrase that includes "better" be a truism? Better at what? Cure may be cheaper than prevention... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.121.143.228 (talk • contribs).

You're right. It's not a trusim and it's not even (always) true. It has been removed now. —Pengo 12:41, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] This truiism...

... rings true. -- Chris 18:52, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

The words "cliché" and "truism" appear as synonyms in some references, e.g. an online thesaurus. But I seem to remember that a cliché refers to a word, phrase or idea, while a truism is more often an entire proposition or sentence. Any comments?