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GP: Is Eris true?
M2: Everything is true.
GP: Even false things?
M2: Even false things are true.
GP: How can that be?
M2: I don't know man, I didn't do it.
Imagine that, you've got some brain disease that makes you think that true things and false things are true at the same time. No amount of brain convincing solve that. And you went crazy over that. There is no escape.
GP: Maybe you are just crazy.
M2: Indeed! But do not reject these teaching as false because I am crazy. The reason that I am crazy is because they are true.
What forsaken rabbit hole have you brought me to now?
The Principia Discordia[1].
Fnord
^
Should be:
M2: Something inside my brain said that, so it must be true.
The Trivium was a field of study for students at university in the middle ages. "Trivial" has also been said to refer to something only of interest to a student of the trivium.
I'm surprised wikipedia doesn't have that theory.
It's a bad article.
The trivium was rhetoric, grammar, and logic - the basic tools of reasoning and argument. It formed a basis for further study; the quadrivium relied on knowledge of the trivium, and consisted of astronomy, geometry, arithmetic and music.
The trivium was "trivial" because it was "Knowledge 101" - a foundation course, as it were.
A proposition is trivially true if it can be seen to be true merely by inspecting the proposition, and without reference to real-world facts. If all statements are true by definition, you don't even need to inspect them. So I guess "trivialism" is the position that all statements are trivially true.
Tevye the Dairyman was famously at times a trivialist.