axiomata

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UK/æksɪˈəʊmətə/

A form of axiom — A seemingly self-evident or necessary truth which is based on assumption; a principle or proposition which cannot actually be proved or disproved.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounaxiomata pl
  1. pluralplural of axiom
  2. pluralplural of axioma

    Kant refers to these principles as “axioms” (axiomata)…

    1987, Paul Guyer, Kant and the Claims of Knowledge, page 65
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    We do, indeed, find mention made of axiomata or general propositions to a greater extent than in the Organon, but they are never clearly distinguished…

    1882, Alfred William Benn, The Greek Philosophers, page 375

    These pairs of extra-monads contain 32 ideas; so there may be 16 groups of axiomata in the theory of numbers, and 16 groups of axiomata in common or indefinite…

    1947, Theodore van Schelven, An Introduction to Definitive Philosophy and Basic Psychology, page 34

    The truth of other axiomata would have to be defined in terms of the truth of these.

    1985, William Kneale, Martha Kneale, The Development of Logic, page 53

    These axiomata themselves are self-evident to us; we do not feel that they need proving and recognize them intuitively.

    2003, J. J. Van Der Leeuw, Conquest of Illusion, page 52

    The only text (S. E. M VII 246 = SVF 2.65 = LS 3oF) that seems to offer evidence that individual impressions might be correlated with multiple axiomata is…

    2003, Brad Inwood, The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics, page 261
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