Axiom
['æksɪəm]
Definition
(noun.) (logic) a proposition that is not susceptible of proof or disproof; its truth is assumed to be self-evident.
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Definition
(a.) 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."
(a.) 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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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Truism, self-evident proposition, intuitive truth, necessary truth.[2]. Postulate, established principle (not of necessity true), proposition commonly received, assumed truth.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:{Self-evident_truth}, aphorism, truism, apophthegm, maxim
ANT:Nonsense, absurdity, soliloquy, absurdness
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Definition
n. a self-evident truth: a universally received principle in an art or science.—adjs. Axiomat′ic Axiomat′ical.—adv. Axiomat′ically.
Editor: Robert
Examples
- It is an established axiom, that 'every bullet has its billet. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- No formula can express an ultimate experience; no axiom can ever be a substitute for what really makes life worth living. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- This was not the axiom he wanted. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- We owe to him the definition of a line as length without breadth, and the formulation of the axiom, Equals subtracted from equals leave equals. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I believe it to be infinitely the truer axiom of the two that innocence can look like guilt. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It is a trite saying that history repeats itself, and certainly no axiom carries more truth than this when applied to the history of each of Edison's important inventions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- My aunt is full of copy-book axioms, but they were all meant to apply to conduct in the early fifties. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
Typist: Ruben