11.There's no point denying that, certainly in the developed world, there's been a rise in consumer capitalism, that's just a truism, but thrift hasn't declined.
16.Ever since the foundation of the European Union, it's been something of a truism that the driving force of European integration was the Franco-German partnership.
17.Thus the statement which seemed like a truism becomes, when re-stated, the following: 'We can never truly judge that something with which we are not acquainted exists'.
18.Now we don't know whether these irregularities cause the disorder or are caused by it, but again, it reinforces the truism that everything that is psychological is simultaneously biological.
19.This statement is indeed scarcely more than a truism, for if a variety were found to have a wider range than that of its supposed parent-species, their denominations would be reversed.
20.Well, the theory goes that your costs diminish because you own your home, you're not raising kids anymore probably — but a lot of those are truisms that aren't very true.