Axiomatic Sentence Examples

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  • It's axiomatic to say that life is not always easy.

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  • There was a time when it was regarded as axiomatic that the earth is flat.

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  • We take as axiomatic our rights as Americans.

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  • These mathematical principles are axiomatic in nature.

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  • My coworker believes that several axiomatic facts of science and nature are false!

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  • Equilibrium is the product of an axiomatic system.

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  • Throughout Europe the governing classes regarded this "union of throne and altar" as axiomatic.

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  • The nature of axiomatic certainty is part of the fundamental problem of logic and metaphysics.

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  • Suggesting CBMs has become so axiomatic of conventional wisdom in situations of perplexity that one hesitates to follow such a well-trodden path.

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  • The idealized Platonic universe of spheres and circles came to be regarded as axiomatic.

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  • It is axiomatic that the weather in Maryland is never the same for long.

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  • The reaction came and left nothing of it all; for five centuries the dominant tone of the older and the newer schools alike was frankly materialistic. " If," says Aristotle, " there is no other substance but the organic substances of nature, physics will be the highest of the sciences," a conclusion which passed for axiomatic until the rise of Neoplatonism.

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  • It is almost axiomatic that diamonds never go down in price.

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  • In Australia, however, where sacrifice of the ordinary type is unknown, the ritual killing of a child is practised in connexion with the initiation of a magician; it is therefore by no means axiomatic that animals were offered before human beings; the problem of priority is one to be solved for each area separately, but probably no solution is possible; in the absence of Aztec traditions it would hardly have seemed probable that two centuries had seen so great a transformation.

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  • Throughout Europe the governing classes regarded this " union of throne and altar " as axiomatic. For the pope, as eldest legitimate sovereign and protagonist against the Revolution, Consalvi obtained from the Congress of Vienna the restitution of the States of the Church in practically their full extent.

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  • Axioms. - There are certain statements that are sometimes regarded as axiomatic; e.g.

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  • Since the separation of powers was still deemed axiomatic, the directors had no voice in legislation or taxation, nor could directors or ministers sit in either house.

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  • Individually self-interested behavior can then be modeled as empirically variable, not axiomatic.

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  • Here, as so often elsewhere, the heresy of an elder day has come to seem almost an axiomatic truth.

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  • Treating this rule as axiomatic the Schoolmen elaborated their analyses of the sacrament of penance, distinguishing form and matter, attrition and contrition, mortal and venial sins.

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  • The War in the West That the war was won in the West has become axiomatic.

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  • Technologies, Synergies and Force Multipliers Using technology to multiply the impact of military forces seems almost axiomatic.

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  • We (as western speakers of Indo-European languages) take as axiomatic that there is one self that is each of us.

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  • Thus, in short, if we ask for a clear and definite fundamental intuition, distinct from regard for happiness, we find really nothing in Whewell's doctrine except the single rule of veracity (including fidelity to promises); and even of this the axiomatic character becomes evanescent on closer inspection, since it is not maintained that the rule is practically unqualified, but only that it is practically undesirable to formulate its qualifications.

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  • The resemblance between the three systems is indeed so close that it has been assumed, almost as axiomatic, that they must have been framed from a single model.

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  • It would be axiomatic to introduce myself in this situation.

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  • This, in an elementary treatment of the subject, must be regarded as axiomatic; but it is really a simple case of mathematical induction.

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