Meanings
- pluralplural of axiom
- pluralplural of axioma
Kant refers to these principles as “axioms” (axiomata)…
1987, Paul Guyer, Kant and the Claims of Knowledge, page 655 more examples
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 375These 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 34The 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 53These 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 52The 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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