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Axiomatic

adjective

Evident without proof or argument. Synonyms: self-evident, taken for granted. "We hold these truths to be self-evident"

Containing aphorisms or maxims. Synonym: aphoristic.

Of or relating to or derived from axioms. Synonyms: axiomatical, postulational. "The postulational method was applied to geometry"

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... to be quite honest, mildly malicious tone in which he was accustomed to talk of them. In his own eyes he had defects, but to see them was a privilege reserved to him alone. For the rest of the world he was surely an image of flawless crystal. It was almost axiomatic. ...

— Crome Yellow • Aldous Huxley

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... freedom of Sixers. As long as they got their jobs done there was almost no checking as to how they spent their time. Well, actually, the jobs to which they were suited were rather trivial—some of them were actually "made work." After all, in a well-run society, it was axiomatic that everyone have basic job security; that's ...

— But, I Don't Think • Gordon Randall Garrett

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... in which Goethe in later years gave out some of the results of his scientific observation in axiomatic form, is one called 'Intuitive Judgment' ('Anschauende Urteilskraft'), in which he maintains that he has achieved in practice what Kant had declared to be for ever beyond the scope of the human mind. Goethe refers to a passage ...

— Man or Matter • Ernst Lehrs

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Words linked to "Axiomatic" : taken for granted, self-evident, aphoristic, axiom, obvious, axiomatical, postulational