Axiomatic

‡ The term axiomatic is used generally to refer to a statement so obvious that it needs no proof. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Therefore in speculative matters the same truth holds among all men both as to principles and as to conclusions, even though all men do not discern this truth in the conclusions but only in those principles which are called axiomatic notions. ❋ Dino Bigongiari (1997)

I would prefer to see them described as axiomatic, and that they are not consistent with any medical concept of which I am aware. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It cannot be denied that our "think so's," "feel so's," impressions, prejudices and inherited or preconceived ideas may seem as infallible to us as any so-called axiomatic or intuitive truths. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Maybe you and I use the word "axiomatic" differently, but Field got his 3-act structure from reading 2,000 screenplays and seeing what separated the ones that got made from the ones that didn't. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Although in this book Newton affects a kind of axiomatic presentation beginning with definitions and axioms, and enunciating a series of propositions, the procedures are really analytic in his sense, as he tells us they are: the propositions are not abstract mathematical statements, but affirmations of physical or experimental fact, and they are justified, not by mathematical deduction, but by what he calls ❋ HENRY GUERLAC (1968)

McLintock! may be uncool but I'd much rather watch its cast brawling and mud-sliding across my screen than those Howard Hawks Rio El Dorado Lobo Geritol horse operas that all the auteurists hanging around the bingo hall find so "axiomatic," not to mention The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, which carries too much sand in its boots and drags considerable awful. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Even if those terms are "axiomatic," they should be explained or described, and the authors must refrain from constantly introducing new terms that may be ambiguous; rather they should repeat words that were already used and explained. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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To most people, the fact that segregation, one of the most shameful aspects of 20th Century US History, would be perpetuated under your axiomatic system means that your understanding of rights is deficient and the society you would establish obnoxious. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Your version of Libertarianism seems to be largely axiomatic (let business discriminate as they please is one of its fundamental axioms) and ahistorical. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A lot of fields have the problem that ever-smaller sub-sub-specialties operate in surprising isolation from other specialties, to the extent that two large bodies of expert consensus in areas that really ought to be related have developed so independently that they sometimes literally contradict each other: people in sub-field A take X as axiomatic, whereas people in related sub-field B studying similar issues take ~X as axiomatic. ❋ Unknown (2010)

However, since the inverse is also non-axiomatic, I assume that someone at the “dinner debate” had taken the opposite viewpoint and this student felt the need to send an email in order to clarify her position (as well as try to win the debate). ❋ Unknown (2010)

Only if I adopt an original axiomatic position different that yours, am I truly asserting moral superiority. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Because it is axiomatic that you will pay more for the insurance than you will lose to fires! ❋ Unknown (2010)

Is it axiomatic that born-agains believe in Creationism? ❋ Unknown (2010)

One group (Walstad, Ejercito, Mark F. [not Field!]) simply, systematically, and deliberately ignores all historical evidence, which they believe is categorically irrelevant to their axiomatic philosophy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Andrew J. Lazarus: Your version of Libertarianism seems to be largely axiomatic (let business discriminate as they please is one of its fundamental axioms) and ahistorical. ❋ Unknown (2010)

That the [21st century] belongs to [China] is axiomatic. It's axiomatic to me that most people get pleasure out of [helping] others. ❋ Slasheyeball (2011)