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 that you cannot win if you do not play the game.

From Salon • Jul. 23, 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

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