axiomatic
IPA: æksiʌmˈætɪk
adjective
- Self-evident or unquestionable. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]
- (mathematics) Relating to or containing axioms. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]
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Examples of "axiomatic" in Sentences
- The first formalizations of modal logic were axiomatic.
- It's one of the most axiomatic principles in economics.
- Antithetic and axiomatic sentences abound in his pages.
- The axiom of choice is a formal statement in axiomatic set theory.
- Infinity is a psychological reaction to the axiomatic of arithmetic.
- This is a general advantage of the axiomatic approach in mathematics.
- Hilbert's approach signaled the shift to the modern axiomatic method.
- In fact in an axiomatic setting rigorous adds nothing to the idea of proof.
- It was not the case that neither could ever be proved in the axiomatic system.
- George Peacock was the founder of axiomatic thinking in arithmetic and algebra.
- 'axiomatic' statement made by some priests in support of the ordination of women: 'all I need
- The term axiomatic is used generally to refer to a statement so obvious that it needs no proof.
- I would prefer to see them described as axiomatic, and that they are not consistent with any medical concept of which I am aware.
- It cannot be denied that our "think so's," "feel so's," impressions, prejudices and inherited or preconceived ideas may seem as infallible to us as any so-called axiomatic or intuitive truths.
- Maybe you and I use the word "axiomatic" differently, but Field got his 3-act structure from reading 2,000 screenplays and seeing what separated the ones that got made from the ones that didn't.
- Even if those terms are "axiomatic," they should be explained or described, and the authors must refrain from constantly introducing new terms that may be ambiguous; rather they should repeat words that were already used and explained.
- Therefore in speculative matters the same truth holds among all men both as to principles and as to conclusions, even though all men do not discern this truth in the conclusions but only in those principles which are called axiomatic notions.
- McLintock! may be uncool but I'd much rather watch its cast brawling and mud-sliding across my screen than those Howard Hawks Rio El Dorado Lobo Geritol horse operas that all the auteurists hanging around the bingo hall find so "axiomatic," not to mention The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, which carries too much sand in its boots and drags considerable awful.
- Although in this book Newton affects a kind of axiomatic presentation beginning with definitions and axioms, and enunciating a series of propositions, the procedures are really analytic in his sense, as he tells us they are: the propositions are not abstract mathematical statements, but affirmations of physical or experimental fact, and they are justified, not by mathematical deduction, but by what he calls