It is an accepted truism within Magick that divination is imperfect. It is a scientific and cultural truism that self-evaluation is motivated. It remains a truism that once a target can be located, it can be killed. That the words include that act is, of course, a truism. La Palice gave his name to the "Lapalissade", a comical truism. It is the opposite of a truism. Jenny Wormald commented that "to talk of Scotland as a poor country is a truism".