Age appropriateness (Expected behaviour of a person for their age)
All models are wrong (Common aphorism in statistics)
Discworld (Fictitious setting in the Discworld franchise)
Half-truth (Deceptive statement)
[List of common misconceptions]
Misinformation (Incorrect or misleading information)
Naïve physics (Untrained human perception of basic physical phenomena)
Neurath's boat (Philosophical analogy about knowledge)
Noble lie (Untruth propagated to strengthen social harmony)
Not even wrong (English phrase)
Pedagogy (Theory and practice of education)
Sunday school answer (Christian term for a simplistic answer)
Toy model (Deliberately simplistic scientific model)
Understanding (Ability to think about and use concepts to deal adequately with a subject)
Upaaya (Technique) (Buddhist term)
- Kaushalya means "cleverness"
- Upaaya-Kaushalya means "Cleverness in Technique"
White lie (Intentionally false statement made to deceive
Wittgenstein's ladder (Concluding and reflective remark on the propositions in Wittgenstein's early work)
Anti-proverb (Transformation of a standard proverb for humorous effect)
Blason Populaire (Any item of any genre which makes use of stereotypes of a particular group)
Book of Proverbs (Book of the Bible)
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (Reference work containing definitions and explanations of phrases, allusions and figures)
Brocard (law) (Legal principle expressed in Latin)
[List of proverbial phrases]
Paremiology (Collection and study of proverbs)
Paremiography (Study of the collection and writing of proverbs)
Paruntuk Kana (A poetic type of Makassarese proverb)
Platitude (Trite, prosaic, or cliché truism)
Proverbial phrase (Short traditional saying that expresses a perceived truth)
Proverbium (US periodical)
Saying (Concise expression memorable for its meaning)
Truthism (Group of loosely affiliated 9/11 conspiracy theorists)

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