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Usage examples of axiom.

If either of these alternative definitions is adopted as the definition of junction, the other definition appears as an axiom respecting the character of junction as we know it in nature.

This axiom enables us to compare the lengths of any two segments either respectively on parallel rects or on the same rect.

The axiom asserts that the rect joining the two event-particles of intersection of the diagonals is parallel to the rect on which the bases lie.

By the aid of this axiom it easily follows that the diagonals of a parallelogram bisect each other.

This axiom evidently expresses the symmetry of perpendicularity, and is the essence of the famous pons asinorum expressed as an axiom.

It is however necessary for time as a supplement to the axiom of kinetic symmetry.

How this simple axiom sweeps away, for instance, the cobweb speculations as to whether voting is a natural right, or a privilege delegated by society!

Either that axiom is false, or, whenever women as a class refuse their consent to the present exclusively masculine government, it can no longer claim just powers.

G appended as an axiom, a new problematic proposition can be constructed for that system.

The axiom is saying that a certain set exists, even though the set is not really specified or constructed.

I will divulge the first axiom of our trade, which indeed can be expanded to a universal application.

This axiom entails corollaries, including a free market and limited government intervention.

Before that time, if to think is to live be a true axiom, I did not live, I could only lay claim to a state of vegetation.

As we talked things over, I could not help laughing at the axiom, Things which are equal to the same thing are equal to one another, for the miniature was like M.

Madame la Riviere, who received them in a thoroughly professional spirit, and I was inwardly amused and felt that her axiom was a true one.