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Synonyms for axioms

Grammar : Noun
Spell : ak-see-uh m
Phonetic Transcription : ˈæk si əm

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Définition of axioms

Origin :
  • late 15c., from Middle French axiome, from Latin axioma, from Greek axioma "authority," literally "that which is thought worthy or fit," from axioun "to think worthy," from axios "worthy, worth, of like value, weighing as much," from PIE adjective *ag-ty-o- "weighty," from root *ag- "to drive, draw, move" (see act (n.)).
  • Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses. [Keats, letter, May 3, 1818]
  • noun principle
Example sentences :
  • These are axioms: outside of these axioms, all is ipso facto null.
  • Extract from : « Napoleon the Little » by Victor Hugo
  • Now, let us see: did M. Bonaparte, in his ballot of the 20th of December, obey these axioms?
  • Extract from : « Napoleon the Little » by Victor Hugo
  • All Euclid is in the definitions and axioms and postulates at the beginning.
  • Extract from : « Expositions of Holy Scripture » by Alexander Maclaren
  • A generalisation of this remark gives us the first axioms of all government.
  • Extract from : « The English Utilitarians, Volume I. » by Leslie Stephen
  • Chimes of bells to call the people to paper-philosophy and axioms!
  • Extract from : « The Lost Art of Reading » by Gerald Stanley Lee
  • Quite unconsciously, John assimilated the Caterpillar's axioms.
  • Extract from : « The Hill » by Horace Annesley Vachell
  • The bases of its teaching are simply "axioms" which are incapable of proof.
  • Extract from : « Freedom in Science and Teaching. » by Ernst Haeckel
  • They imply certain propositions which might be regarded as axioms.
  • Extract from : « The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) » by Leslie Stephen
  • These are the axioms which properly relate only to quantities (quanta) as such.
  • Extract from : « The Critique of Pure Reason » by Immanuel Kant
  • I tried to run through my axioms, and I was suddenly terrified.
  • Extract from : « Exploiter's End » by James Causey

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