"vacuous truth" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: vacuous truths [plural]
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  1. (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. Wikipedia link: vacuous truth Categories (topical): Logic Related terms: principle of explosion

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