axioms

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Mathematics is a system of symbols and accepted axioms created by human beings, which can be used as a language for describing the world.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 14, 2026

Their mathematics and geometry, built on logical proofs from axioms, remain eternal.

From Slate • Sep. 26, 2025

One of the key axioms of politics in our, and any other, era is that nothing lasts forever.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2025

“One of the axioms of the system of international relations is that such a system is intrinsically anarchic.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 20, 2023

From them, it should be possible to derive a complete system of knowledge embracing every aspect of the natural world, just as one can deduce the whole of Euclidean geometry from five axioms.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton