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axiomata media, phr. Philos.|æksɪˈəʊməta ˈmiːdɪə|
[mod.L. (Bacon Nov. Org. (1620) i. xix. p. 51), f. pl. of Gr. ἀξίωµα axiom + L. medium medium; cf. axiom 1 b.]
(See quot. 1934.)
1833J. S. Mill in Monthly Repos. VII. 669. 1843 ― Syst. Logic II. vi. v. 524 The principles of Ethology are properly the middle principles, the axiomata media (as Bacon would have said) of the science of mind... Bacon has judiciously observed that the axiomata media of every science principally constitute its value. 1934Webster, Axiomata media, middle principles; those general principles which are above simple empirical laws, yet inferior to the highest generalizations, or to such as are taken to be fundamental. 1937A. H. Murray Philos. J. Ward vii. 154 Philosophy wants axiomata media. It is only by such middle principles or mediating principles that it can hope to arrive at a view of the world in which all the knowledges of the various sciences will form a unified whole. |