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  • noun Plural form of axioma.

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Examples

  • Or– Mothers Against Destructive Debt (MADD), though that might be a little redundant.axiomata(Quote)

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Mothers Against Debt 2010

  • For the Stoics, only axiomata, and not the words used to articulate them, were properly said to be true or false.

    Propositions McGrath, Matthew 2007

  • Among the most characteristic are the following: athuta pallakon spermata; amorphoi edrai; osa axiomata pros archontas; oi kata polin kairoi; muthos, used in several places of ‘the discourse about laws;’ and connected with this the frequent use of paramuthion and paramutheisthai in the general sense of ‘address,’

    Laws 2006

  • His scala intellectus has two contrary movements “upwards and downwards: from axiomata to experimenta and opera and back again” (Pérez-Ramos, 1988, 236).

    Francis Bacon Klein, Juergen 2003

  • Præterea et is primus fuit, qui post erectam a tua sublimitate Academiam, in eadem Christianissima aliquot axiomata palam et doctissime, me hoc illi consulente, asseruit.

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • Finally, the emperor leaves the church wearing his crown and going to the metatorium seats himself upon his throne while the dignitaries (axiomata) come and do homage by kissing his knees.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

  • And it is to the genius of Israel that we owe that rigorously logical interpretation of the _axiomata media_ of legalism, which issued in due season in

    What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular Edmond Holmes 1893

  • Consider for a moment what flows from these axiomata; it will result, I think, that Honour, Religion, and Love, the three fortresses of the human soul, will be found deeply involved with them.

    The Fool Errant Maurice Hewlett 1892

  • But it is of Plato after all we should be thinking; of the comparatively temperate thoughts, the axiomata media, he was able to derive, by a [43] sort of compromise, from the impossible paradox of his ancient master.

    Plato and Platonism Walter Pater 1866

  • The principles of Ethology are properly the middle principles, the _axiomata media_ (as Bacon would have said) of the science of mind: as distinguished, on the one hand, from the empirical laws resulting from simple observation, and, on the other, from the highest generalizations.

    A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839

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