axiomatic

• We all expended so much charity, that, had it been money, we should every one have been bankrupt The special part played in the society by Huxley was to show that many of the axioms of current speculation are far from being axiomatic, and that dogmatic assertion on some of the cardinal points of metaphysic is unwarranted by the evidence of fact. —  The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley V.1
• I had convinced myself not only that the principles of free trade are axiomatic, but that they afford the only means of binding nations together in permanent peace; that Great Britain was our best friend; that, in desiring us to adopt her own system, she was moved by broad, philosophic, and philanthropic considerations. —  Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, V1
• St. Paul certainly treats them as axiomatic, and from the loftiest poetry down to the humblest nursery rhyme, bards of all ages have sung in the same sense. —  In a Walled Garden
• Although temporal succession and spatial proximity are axiomatic, causal connection is not.
• It's axiomatic, really, that the more powerful government is in our lives, the more money that there is around the seat of power. —  Outside The Beltway | OTB

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