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axiomatic, a.|ˌæksɪəˈmætɪk|
[ad. Gr. ἀξιωµατικός, f. ἀξίωµα: see axiom and -atic.]
A. adj.
1. Of the nature of an axiom or admitted first principle; self-evident; indisputably true.
1797W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. XXII. 556 The axiomatic pillars of a new code of the law of nations. 1855H. Spencer Psychol. (1872) II. vi. viii. 95 These axiomatic truths are truths recognized by the simplest order of reasoning.
2. Characterized by axioms or admitted first principles; axiomatical.
1812Sir H. Davy Chem. Philos. 32 He gave an axiomatic form to the Science.
3. Full of maxims or pithy sentences, aphoristic.
1834Southey Doctor (1862) 381 The most axiomatic of English Poets. 1835I. Taylor Spir. Despot. iii. 96 A people..rich in axiomatic good sense.
B. n. pl. A body of axioms; the study or use of axioms.
1927E. T. Whittaker in Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 21 What we want to do, then, is to set forth the axiomatics of general relativity in the same form as we have been accustomed to give to the axiomatics of any other kind of geometry. 1959K. R. Popper Logic Sci. Disc. 320 From the formal point of view of ‘axiomatics’, probability can be described as a two-termed functor. |