It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. From LearnThat.org. [Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)]
So if the math relates to a physics matter the "axiom" is tested. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Thinking] Reference
No, the axiom is concerned with the morality of genocide. From Wordnik.com. [Carry-Over Thread] Reference
The old journalism axiom is "Get it first, but get it right.". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2003-10-01] Reference
It will remain logically possible that the axiom is objectively correct. From Wordnik.com. [Carry-Over Thread] Reference
It seems the operating axiom is the old "When all else fails, do what's right.". From Wordnik.com. ["The Liturgy Changes Us..."] Reference
But the main weakness of this misleading axiom is that it does not go far enough. From Wordnik.com. [Try Anything Twice] Reference
“Human Welfare”, that is her axiom, that is her motto of life. From Wordnik.com. [A British born Humanitarian becomes; Prey to Vultures of the Society.] Reference
The axiom is the government creates commissions to avoid divisive issues. From Wordnik.com. [The Final Report Of The Commission On Immigration Reform] Reference
Hence it came to pass that these two Classes could see no force in the so-called axiom about. From Wordnik.com. [Flatland: a romance of many dimensions] Reference
The first of these axioms, forming the fifth axiom of congruence, will be called the axiom of 'kinetic symmetry.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919] Reference
To illustrate, suppose we added a fourth axiom, one to the effect that necessity is here truth-implicating, called axiom T. From Wordnik.com. [Deontic Logic] Reference
And the axiom is (usually) correct. From Wordnik.com. [CreatureCast video: multicellularity explained - Boing Boing] Reference
That axiom is nothing more than a fairy tale. From Wordnik.com. [Dawkins and ID] Reference
It is like an axiom which is certain without demonstration. From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
I've updated last month's post on WALL-E with a bit from Heidegger on "axiom". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference
This kind of axiom, therefore, deduces the thing from the forms of simple natures. From Wordnik.com. [The New Organon] Reference
Heidegger explains the station's name:What "axiom" could mean when taken on its own lacks objective meaning. From Wordnik.com. [enowning] Reference
Axios is the Greek word from which we get the English word "axiom" or "axiomatic.". From Wordnik.com. [Grace and Truth to You] Reference
They must now, according to our "axiom," be so strong as to make our defeat certain. From Wordnik.com. [Peace Theories and the Balkan War] Reference
–¡ A ’ –¡ –¡ A (known as axiom 4 of modal logic) is indeed provable in GL. From Wordnik.com. [Provability Logic] Reference
Include the two parties in your "axiom" (as you must) and it becomes impossible of application. From Wordnik.com. [Peace Theories and the Balkan War] Reference
We have all apparently, Liberals and Conservatives alike, accepted this "axiom" as self-evident. From Wordnik.com. [Peace Theories and the Balkan War] Reference
In all these cases, I tell my people to remind themselves of a simple six-word axiom: "Not my fault. From Wordnik.com. [BusinessWeek.com --] Reference
Does it bother anyone else that the word "axiom" seems unsuited to describe a list of interdependent observations?. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Posts Across MetaFilter] Reference
Now, the word "axiom" originates from the fact that formal logic was usually considered as a tool for mathematics. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
So, herewith a third axiom: Really grim news always contains good news. From Wordnik.com. [The Good Bad News] Reference
America abides by that axiom and, as a result, is a powerful job machine. From Wordnik.com. [Why America Creates Jobs] Reference
Another baseball axiom: "You can't play the game with your teeth gritted.". From Wordnik.com. [A Diamond In Orange County] Reference
In 1994 Tip O'Neill died and so did his axiom that "all politics is local.". From Wordnik.com. [Elevating Newt, Depreciating Chesty And Other Won] Reference
While this axiom is widely held, it turns out there isn't scientific evidence to back it up. From Wordnik.com. [Goldilocks Was Right] Reference
Also, he still seems to believe John Kennedy's axiom that a rising economic tide raises all boats. From Wordnik.com. [Pangloss For Veep] Reference
An axiom of crisis, the vice president understood from long experience, is "First reports are always wrong.". From Wordnik.com. [The Day That Changed America] Reference
To see the axiom in action, as it were, turn to page 253 of the farm bill the president recently signed into law. From Wordnik.com. [Political Dissonance] Reference
Clinton can take comfort from the axiom that success is relative: it is making something of the mess one has made of things. From Wordnik.com. [A Weird Sincerity] Reference
In the truncated conquest of Fallujah, U.S. commanders ignored Napoleon's axiom: "If you start to take Vienna -- take Vienna.". From Wordnik.com. [A LETHAL IDEA STILL LIVES] Reference
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