axiomatic

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IIT starts out by formulating five axiomatic properties of any conceivable subjective experience.

From Scientific American • Sep. 8, 2023

It’s axiomatic in hockey that the team that works the hardest often wins, and that’s exactly what we’ve seen from the Kraken this season.

From Seattle Times • May 10, 2023

The reason, as always, seemed axiomatic: Ocean was performing because that’s what performers do.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2023

“By the 1950s, Protestants and Jews took as axiomatic that birth control was essential to nurturing children’s spiritual and psychological development, maternal health, economic security, and the sanctity of family.”

From Slate • Mar. 9, 2023

Even the 2,500-year-old Greek idea of an axiomatic geometry—a few self-evident axioms being assumed, and from them the theorems being derived by logic alone—is not being effectively taught in secondary school.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos