不易之论

不易之論
búyìzhīlùn
idiom

Meanings

  1. 1 an unalterable truth
  2. 2 irrefutable argument
  3. 3 a perfectly sound proposition

Examples

HSK 6
Chéngshí shì zuìhǎo de zhèngcè, zhè shì búyìzhīlùn.
Honesty is the best policy - this is an unalterable truth.
HSK 7-9
Tā de fēnxī kānchēng búyìzhīlùn, wúrén fǎnbó.
His analysis stands as an irrefutable argument - no one rebutted it.

Tips

history
From the Song-dynasty 《冷斋夜话》 by monk-poet 惠洪: 成周三代之际,圣人多生儒中…此不易之论也. He used the phrase to seal a sweeping claim about sage-rebirth across the Three Dynasties - the very kind of claim 不易之论 was meant to label as unshakeable.
mistakes
易 here means 'change/alter', not 'easy'. 不易之论 is 'an argument that cannot be changed', not 'an easy argument'. Misreading easy → easily-stated is the typical learner trap.

Stroke Order

不 bù
易 yì
之 zhī
论 lùn