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axiom
  1. (philosophy) A seemingly self-evident or necessary truth which is based on assumption; a principle or proposition which cannot actually be proved or disproved.
  2. (logic) A fundamental assumption that serves as a basis for deduction of theorems; a postulate.
  3. An established principle in some artistic practice or science that is universally received.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “I start from the simple axiom that I own myself, that my life belongs to me and not to someone else.”
      “Many blogs feature in their heading a maxim, aphorism, saying, adage, axiom, saw, proverb, epigram or precept.”
      “Note that each line in a proof is either an axiom, or follows from previous lines by one of the simple rules.”
axiomatization
  1. The reduction of some system or concept to a set of axioms.
  2. The result of establishing a concept within a system of axioms; axiomatic system.
  3. Examples:
    1. “Frege asked about Hilbert's claim that his axiomatization provides definitions of the primitives of geometry, so that the very same sentences serve as axioms and definition.”
      “The axiomatization of set theory formed the foundations, mathematically, of everything else.”
axiomatics
  1. The study of all the axioms associated with a particular subject.
axiomatizability
  1. The condition of being axiomatizable.
axiomatisation
  1. Alternative form of axiomatization
axiomaticity
  1. The characteristic of being axiomatic
axioma
axiomatizabilities
  1. (rare) plural of axiomatizability
axiomatizations
  1. plural of axiomatization
axiomatisations
  1. plural of axiomatisation
axiomata
axioms
  1. plural of axiom
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  3. Examples:
    1. “According to Frege, while definitions should give the meanings and fix the denotations of terms, axioms should express truths.”
      “A Euclidean geometry is based on false assumptions, which are called definitions, axioms, and postulates.”
      “The choice of axioms in a logical system can represent content specific information.”
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