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In set theory he made important contributions to the axiom of choice and to the continuum hypothesis.
One axiom of modern warfare is that airpower cannot conquer, control or hold ground.
Plato had made the bold suggestion that there might be a single axiom system to embrace all knowledge.
The student who is tempted to skip it and trust to luck should be mindful of Francis Bacon's axiom.
Like all absolutist dogmas, this combination of axiom and corollaries appeals in its simplicity and directness.
Well, you can fall you back on the axiom that he who pays the piper calls the tune.
I start from the simple axiom that I own myself, that my life belongs to me and not to someone else.
It has long been an axiom that history is re-written by each generation in terms that make sense to it.
These he removed with his reinterpretation that removed the axiom of reducibility.
However he also showed that linear sentence systems do have independent axiom systems.
Sure, the old axiom recommends aviating first, navigating second, and communicating third.
Not that any political party cannot be expected to share the motherhood-and-apple-pie axiom that crime is a bad thing.
It is now an axiom that the overwhelming power of the American military machine has reshaped international affairs.
This story out of USA Today makes false the axiom that lightning never strikes the same place twice.
The taller the man, the bigger the hands is an axiom that doesn't necessarily hold true for wide receivers.
I used to live by the axiom that it's easier to warm up in the cold than cool off in the heat.
It is an axiom that justice must not only be done, it must be seen to be done.
It is an axiom that every research establishment is strong to the extent of an unbreakable link existing between different generations.
The axiom is that golf was never meant to be a fair game, so then the natural response is when does it become an unfair game?
I decline to accept as an axiom that our fate is involved in that of France.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Those who deny the possibility of all non-empirical knowledge naturally hold that every axiom is ultimately based on observation.
This is the Euclidean case, and the assumption that this case holds is the Euclidean parallel axiom.
That is an axiom I have frequently heard fall from the lips of my dear mistress.
Finally the sixth axiom of congruence is that the relation of congruence is transitive.
It had long been an axiom with the slavocracy that the institution would perish unless it had the opportunity to expand.
The proof of Euclid's axiom looked for in the properties of the equiangular Spiral.
In the hyperbola we have the mathematical demonstration of the error of an axiom.
It is an axiom in all progress that the more we conquer the more easily we conquer.
That the half may be better than the whole in travel is an axiom verified every day.
To establish Luther's axiom, that thoughts are toll-free, was his determination.
It's an axiom, I think, that to heighten a nation's wisdom you must lower its franchise.
So convinced am I of the truth of this axiom, that I should not die easy if I had not told it.
It is a military axiom not to advance uphill against the enemy, nor to oppose him when he comes downhill.
On the one hand this would be a rude disproof of our mother's axiom, which wouldn't be such a bad thing.
We shall not even take the trouble to demonstrate this, for it is an axiom in morals, as in physics.
In the practice of law this axiom is not yet generally accepted.
I am able, as well as any man, to verify the truth of this axiom.
The axiom was a favourite with his father, who had sickened him with it.
This axiom is the basis upon which we build our deductive Reasoning.
The non-intervention of God in history is an axiom with the Modernists.
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