Sentences with axiom
ax·i·om
A a - ...the long-held axiom that education leads to higher income.
- The axioms of politics
- I start from the simple axiom that I own myself, that my life belongs to me and not to someone else.
- It is an axiom that justice must not only be done, it must be seen to be done.
- Euclid's axiom that things equal to the same thing are equal to each other
- Can we then find axioms as self-evident as those of Arithmetic, on which we can build as on a sure foundation, which could be shaken only by a scepticism which should attack the whole fabric of our knowledge?
- Not that any political party cannot be expected to share the motherhood-and-apple-pie axiom that crime is a bad thing.
- We have all heard the very true axiom that bookmakers really don't care who wins any given game, as long as there are equal amounts wagered on both sides.
- The axioms of political economy cannot be considered absolute truths.
- We all know the old axiom that writers are, by their very nature, liars.
- In few other areas of the law is there greater truth to the axiom that ‘justice delayed is justice denied.
- However the axiom that the quality and cost of the food in a revolving restaurant is in inverse proportion to the height of the tower doesn't apply here.
- It is an axiom that every research establishment is strong to the extent of an unbreakable link existing between different generations.
- This story out of USA Today makes false the axiom that lightning never strikes the same place twice.
- I used to live by the axiom that it's easier to warm up in the cold than cool off in the heat.
- It was an axiom that Ireland assimilated settlers in one generation.
- Gödel showed, in 1940, that the Axiom of Choice cannot be disproved using the other axioms of set theory.
- In 1904 he gave axioms for a boolean algebra then later, in 1933, he showed that a boolean algebra could be defined in terms of a single binary and a single unary operation.
- He sees mathematics as ontology and so his return to philosophy is to a systematic one based on the axioms of set theory.
- I decline to accept as an axiom that our fate is involved in that of France.
- It is a well-accepted axiom that the software ‘industry’ grew largely because of government indifference, not its help.
- Robert Simson of Glasgow University had, in his 1756 edition of the Elements, given a proof of the parallel axiom based on another assumption.
- It is now an axiom that the overwhelming power of the American military machine has reshaped international affairs.
- But at some point, you must reach what one might call a moral axiom that you can't logically demonstrate.
- The taller the man, the bigger the hands is an axiom that doesn't necessarily hold true for wide receivers.
- There's an old axiom that ‘Duty is heavier than a mountain, death is lighter than a feather.
- Perhaps, simply, reiterating a postmodernist axiom, language and not land is the site of this poetry and its abiding concern.