first truth
first truth · first truths
A statement that is not proved but rather supposed or held as obvious, forming…A statement that is not proved but rather supposed or held as obvious, forming together with other such statements the basis of a system of statements obtained from them by inference; an axiom.
» Adversity is the first path to truth.
Meaning
1 sensesA statement that is not proved but rather supposed or held as obvious, forming together with other such statements the basis of a system of statements obtained from them by inference; an axiom.
Examples
1 sentencesAdversity is the first path to truth.
Forms
plural: first truths| Singular | first truth |
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Word family
1 related wordsRelatedfirst principle