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Definition of Axiomatic

1. Adjective. Evident without proof or argument. "We hold these truths to be self-evident"

2. Adjective. Containing aphorisms or maxims. "Axiomatic wisdom"

3. Adjective. Of or relating to or derived from axioms. "The postulational method was applied to geometry"

Definition of Axiomatic

1. a. Of or pertaining to an axiom; having the nature of an axiom; self-evident; characterized by axioms.

Definition of Axiomatic

1. Adjective. Evident without proof or argument. ¹

2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to an axiom. ¹

3. Adjective. (informal) Obvious. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Axiomatic

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Axiomatic

1. Of or pertaining to an axiom; having the nature of an axiom; self-evident; characterised by axioms. (12 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Axiomatic

axiologically axiologies axiologist axiologists axiology axiom axiom of choice axiom of extensionality axiom schema axiom schemata

axiom scheme axiom schemes axiom system axioma axiomata axiomatic axiomatic system axiomatic systems axiomatical axiomatically

axiomatics axiomatisable axiomatisation axiomatisations axiomatise axiomatised axiomatises axiomatising axiomatizabilities axiomatizability

Literary usage of Axiomatic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Law of Freedom and Bondage in the United States by John Codman Hurd (1858)
"—the answer must be found by ascertaining the effect of the necessary axiomatic principles or definitions composing the first part of the international law, ..."

2. Methods of Instruction by James Pyle Wickersham (1865)
"Axiomatic TRUTHS. — An Axiomatic Truth is a self-evident, necessary, and universal principle, known to be true by intuition. Such truths under the names of ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Once baptized always baptized, and always subject to the laws of Christ and His infallible Church, is axiomatic. Disparity of worship embraces and renders ..."

4. Psychology: Normal and Morbid by Charles Arthur Mercier (1901)
"... FAULTS OF Axiomatic REASONING: FALLACIES Axiomatic reasoning, as it is by no means the only form of reasoning, so it is by no means the only form which ..."

5. The Likelihood Principle by James O. Berger, Robert L. Wolpert (1988)
"... which derives the LP solely from a generalized version of the conditionally principle. 3.3.2 Axiomatic Development The formal statement of the ..."

6. A Comparison of Tendencies in Secondary Education in England and the United by James William Norman (1922)
"From these statements it seems that democracy is really coming into its own, and its principles becoming axiomatic the world over, —a democracy not only of ..."

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