Only, axiomaticthough it is, it seems to dawn on many minds like a revelation late in life, and they feel they are no longer as other men, and that they must henceforth call themselves socialists.
All that merely says that justice and humanity ought to govern in economic affairs, as they ought to govern in all other affairs of life; and this is an axiomatic position which nobody in the world denies.
The same axiomatic proposition must dominate every legal task, but especially every task of criminal law.
This is the fundamental law of perception, of modern psychology, variously expressed, butaxiomatic in all physiological psychology.
The proposition with which this section opens was accepted as our axiomatic starting-point.
It seems unnecessary to state this almost axiomatic truth, yet the slight reflection given to the choice of an occupation by most young people gives to this statement a very practical bearing.
It isaxiomatic that to be "economic goods" human efforts like material goods must afford utilities whose importance is felt.
It is one of those questions which only need to be asked to be answered, an interrogative which is axiomatic and self-evident.
Even the scribe assents to this as an axiomatic truth he has no wish to challenge.
A careful review of one thousand and twenty letters relating to established cases of successful prayer showed that the believer accepted as fundamentally true axiomatic facts of which the following is a partial list.
A boy smiles at the waste of time in telling him such an axiomatic or self-evident fact.
And axiomatic as this is, it requires to be clearly laid down.
This answer evidently seems to you to convey anaxiomatic truth: but not to me.
We have to go to Bacon or to Leibniz to see the genesis and growth of those ideas which to-day have become materialized into axiomatic points of view and into hard-and-fast categories of thought.
This statement appears axiomatic to Locke, and by it he would settle the whole discussion.
It lay outside the field of controversy, and possessed for Kant, as it had possessed for Hume and for Leibniz, that authoritative and axiomatic character which an unchallenged preconception tends always to acquire.
Assumptions which hitherto had been quite unconsciously held, or else, if reflected upon, had been regarded as axiomatic and self-evident, are now brought within the field of investigation.
Indeed, so often and so glibly has the quotation been made that it is well-nigh axiomatic and altogether trite.
It is axiomatic that the learning process does not flourish in a state of boredom.
Standing With The People We have found two simple and axiomatic social principles in the fundamental convictions of Jesus: The sacredness of life and personality, and the spiritual solidarity of men.
If we can get hold of the convictions which were axiomatic and immediate with him on these three questions, we shall have the key to his social principles.
The Axiomatic Social Convictions Of Jesus Chapter I.
I We have seen that three convictions were axiomatic within Jesus, so that all his reasoning and his moral imperatives were based on them, just as all thought and work in physics is based on gravitation.
According to the priority they have with respect to our knowledge of them, the laws of nature are divided, first, into axiomatic precepts, which are evident and are granted by all (e.
God Himself cannot dispense in any way from those precepts whose matter is necessary (see 302), such as axiomatic precepts (viz.
For the courts he had no respect at all; his contempt was so deep-rooted that he never once considered the possibility of their doing justice, and spoke as if it were axiomatic that they could not do justice if they tried.
It is axiomatic that our country can not stand still.
That the whole community should be forced to support the church appeared axiomatic to the New England of Governor Bradford, Cotton Mather and Jonathan Edwards.
Forestry Service men who have not been congenial with the foremen of the logging companies have been transferred to other places, and it is almost axiomatic that three transfers is the same as a discharge.
It is axiomaticthat a government which can be maintained only by the suppression of criticism should not be maintained.
The presence of this undifferentiated universal life-power is the final axiomatic fact to which all our analysis must ultimately conduct us.
But this goes away from the self-evident axiomatic truth that "in the beginning" nothing could have had any origin except Thought.
Sidgwick, in his Methods of Ethics, holds that the axiomatic character of happiness as an end proves that the position is not empirical but intuitional or a priori.
The principle that happiness is the ultimate aim of human action and the ultimate standard of the moral value of that action is generally regarded by the utilitarians as axiomatic and not susceptible of proof.
That religion must have an inward seat and origin; that divine things must be learned of God, are taken as axiomatic truths throughout this book.
We shall endeavour to answer these questions by making a series of statements in axiomatic form, and then we shall enlarge upon these propositions.
To be able to make such assertions, geometry must be stripped of its merely logical-formal character by the co-ordination of real objects of experience with the empty conceptual frame-work of axiomatic geometry.
Poincare:--Euclidean geometry is distinguished above all other imaginable axiomatic geometries by its simplicity.
If we deny the relation between the body of axiomatic Euclidean geometry and the practically-rigid body of reality, we readily arrive at the following view, which was entertained by that acute and profound thinker, H.
It is clear that the system of concepts of axiomatic geometry alone cannot make any assertions as to the relations of real objects of this kind, which we will call practically-rigid bodies.
For if contradictions between theory and experience manifest themselves, we should rather decide to change physical laws than to change axiomatic Euclidean geometry.
Envisaged in this way, axiomatic geometry and the part of natural law which has been given a conventional status appear as epistemologically equivalent.
We will call this completed geometry "practical geometry," and shall distinguish it in what follows from "purely axiomatic geometry.
This is possible only where the spiritual life is taken up as our own life, and developed as our own life; where, therefore, its vindication attains to the overwhelming power and the axiomatic certainty of self-preservation.
The experience of history shows further that that which some have taken as absolutely primary and axiomatic has been regarded by others as derivative, and has been explained in an entirely different manner.
Where our own life lacks such a fountain-head the conviction of a spiritual life never attains to axiomatic certainty, but depends on the thin threads of reasons and proofs, and therefore is most easy to overthrow.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "axiomatic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
