vacuous truth
vacuous truth · vacuous truths
A proposition which is true only because it is a conditional statement with a…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.
Meaning
1 sensesA 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.
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