Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a trivial manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a trivial manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
trivial manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a frivolously trivial manner
- adverb with little effort
Etymologies
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Examples
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Bad analogy aside, science and religion are not, as Coyne wants us to believe, only "trivially" compatible in the sense that you can be a religious scientist.
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I think it would be advantageous if Seattle and Washington adopted electronic records laws that dictated all material be kept in a format which could be "trivially" disseminated.
Subtexts « PubliCola 2010
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He is arguing that science and religion are at best "trivially" compatible only in like manner of things that are, to first order, incompatible.
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He is arguing that science and religion are at best "trivially" compatible only in like manner of things that are, to first order, incompatible.
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Bad analogy aside, science and religion are not, as Coyne wants us to believe, only "trivially" compatible in the sense that you can be a religious scientist.
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That's why material conditionals whose antecedents are false are only "trivially" true.
Archive 2006-11-01 Mike L 2006
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That's why material conditionals whose antecedents are false are only "trivially" true.
Torturing heretics again Mike L 2006
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They are "if-then" statements but the condition, the state of affairs described by the 'if-clause', doesn't obtain; so it doesn't matter whether the consequent is true or not; the whole statement is true, but only "trivially" so in virtue of the antecedent's falsity.
Archive 2006-11-01 Mike L 2006
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That makes HP* what logicians call "trivially" true, so that even if HP* were ITOM, that would not matter.
The branch theorists join the discontinuants Mike L 2006
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They are "if-then" statements but the condition, the state of affairs described by the 'if-clause', doesn't obtain; so it doesn't matter whether the consequent is true or not; the whole statement is true, but only "trivially" so in virtue of the antecedent's falsity.
Torturing heretics again Mike L 2006
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