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Definition

something assumed to be self-evident

We prove with axioms. We do not prove axioms, so we have to agree on a place to start.

It is an axiom of governance that power, once acquired, is seldom freely relinquished.
In chemistry also the axiom fails.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Purloined Letter

axiom = something assumed to be self-evident

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
You know, Scarlett, money ill come by never comes to good and this house is proof of the axiom.
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
Lord Warburton seemed scarcely in the mood for doing justice to general axioms—he was thinking of a special case.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2
The axioms of the few are shared by the many; the latter believe superstitiously what the former believe soberly.
Clement Greenberg -- Avant-garde and Kitsch
But my mother-in-law taught me another axiom one day, when she was aggravated with her husband: "Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want."
Lisa See -- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
I consider that an axiom.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot
It became an axiom for me.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
This was his axiom: "There is but one certainty, my full glass."
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
It was a Bene Gesserit axiom.
Frank Herbert -- Dune
This was not the axiom he wanted.
Ernest Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls
He would have answered by some axiom from Plato.
Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
Lord Warburton seemed scarcely in the mood for doing justice to general axioms—he was thinking of a special case.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
Money rests on the axiom that every man is the owner of his mind and his effort.
Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
Lateral truths point to the falseness of axioms and postulates underlying one's existing system of getting at truth.
Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
"Oh, I don't know; it's definitions, and axioms, and triangles, and things.
George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss
The axiom that a man is innocent until proved guilty by a court of law has been flagrantly ignored once again in the State of Mississippi.
John Howard Griffin -- Black Like Me
"All roads lead to Amber," he said, as though it were an axiom.
Roger Zelazny -- Nine Princes in Amber

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