Timeline for A word beyond 'stating the obvious'

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Jan 20, 2019 at 22:06	history	edited	Jesse	CC BY-SA 4.0	cleanup & reflecting discussion
Jan 20, 2019 at 22:01	history	edited	Jesse	CC BY-SA 4.0	reflecting discussion
Jan 20, 2019 at 21:59	comment	added	Jesse		@Laurel, you have a point, but it depends. Rectangles and squares. Boilerplate often includes "opposite [opinion] would be ridiculous".
Jan 20, 2019 at 21:55	comment	added	Laurel♦		I don't think the following is true for boilerplate: "its opposite would clearly be ridiculous".
Jan 20, 2019 at 16:04	comment	added	Jesse		But "truth" wasn't part of the question. It was about "stating obvious" with tautology and truism as examples. Boilerplate fits those. :-)
Jan 20, 2019 at 16:03	comment	added	Tuffy		The trouble is that boilerplate has nothing to do with whether or not it is obviously true. Better would the the ‘truism’, which does have the sense of ‘pointlessly true’. Cliché.
Jan 20, 2019 at 14:51	history	edited	Jesse	CC BY-SA 4.0	cleanup
Jan 20, 2019 at 14:39	history	edited	Jesse	CC BY-SA 4.0	more accurate description of the linked article
Jan 20, 2019 at 14:32	history	answered	Jesse	CC BY-SA 4.0