不易之论

不易之論
bùyìzhīlùn
idiom

Meanings

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

Examples

Chéngshí shì zuì hǎo de zhèngcè, zhè shì bùyìzhīlùn.
Honesty is the best policy — this is an unalterable truth.
Tā de fēnxī kānchēng bùyìzhīlùn, wú rén fǎnbó.
His analysis stands as an irrefutable argument — no one rebutted it.

Tips

history
From the Song-dynasty 《》 by monk-poet (Huìhóng): '周三之际圣人不易之论。' 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
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.

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