vacuous truth

English

Noun

vacuous truth (plural vacuous truths)

(logic) A proposition which is true only because it is a conditional statement with a necessarily false premise, or which asserts a property of all elements of an empty domain of discourse.

Coordinate terms

principle of explosion

Translations

conditional statement true because of a false premise

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