Definition of Axiom

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Definition of Axiom

Axiom

A self-evident and necessary truth, or a proposition whose truth is so evident as first sight that no reasoning or demonstration can make it plainer; a proposition which it is necessary to take for granted; as, "The whole is greater than a part;" "A thing can not, at the same time, be and not be."

An established principle in some art or science, which, though not a necessary truth, is universally received; as, the axioms of political economy.

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Axiom Quotations

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.
Gustave Flaubert

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
Arthur Conan Doyle

The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can.
Moses Mendelssohn

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
Aneurin Bevan

It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.
John George Nicolay

The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions.
Alonzo Church

Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence.
John Searle

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.
Fernand Leger

Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
Walt Alston

Axiom Translations

axiom in Dutch is grondstelling, axioma
axiom in French is axiome
axiom in German is Axiom
axiom in Swedish is axiom

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