Cole's Axiom: The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.
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Axiom
//ˈak.sɪ.əm//
Synonyms for "axiom" (183 found)
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Closest matches (37)
Strong matches (55)
circumstancecold factcollected sayingsconceded factconjecturecorecurrent sayingdatadatumdemonstrable factdictatedictumdistichdoctrinedogmaelixirempirical factepigramessenceessential
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established factexpressionfactfact of experiencefirst principlesflowerfocusformulafoundationfundamentalgistgiven factgnomegolden rulegolden sayinggravamengroundguessworkhard facthearthypostasishypothesishypothesis ad hocindisputable factinescapable factinferenceinner essencekernellawlemmamajor premisemarrowmatter of factmeat
Noun(1 words)
Related words (91)
minor premisemoralmotmottonaked factnitty grittynot guessworknot opinionnubnucleusnuts and boltsoraclephilosophemephilosophical propositionphrasepithpithy sayingplainpositionpositive fact
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postulationpostulatumpreceptpremiseprescriptpresumptionpresupposalpresuppositionprincipiumprinciplepropositionpropositional functionprovable factproverbproverbial sayingproverbsquidquiddityquintessencerulesalient factsapsawsayingself-evident factself-evident truthsentencesententious expressionset of postulatessettled principlesignificant factsimple factslokasober factsoulspiritstandardstatementstock sayingstubborn factstuffsubstancesumptionsupposalsupposingsuppositionsurmisesutrateachingtenettextthe casethe nitty-grittytheoremthesistruismtruthtruth tabletruth-functiontruth-valueundeniable factuniversal truthversewell-known factwisdomwisdom literaturewise sayingwitticismwordwords of wisdomworking hypothesis
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Translations
127 translations across 60 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- aksiomë noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- ἀξίωμα noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
- ἀξίωμα noun (mathematics: fundamental assumption)
Arabic
1 entries- بَدِيهِيَّة noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
Armenian
2 entries- աքսիոմ noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
- աքսիոմ noun (mathematics: fundamental assumption)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- aksiom noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
Belarusian
2 entries- аксіо́ма noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
- аксіёма noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
Bulgarian
1 entries- аксио́ма noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
Catalan
3 entries- axioma noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
- axioma noun (mathematics: fundamental assumption)
- axioma noun (established principle in art or science)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 公理 noun (mathematics: fundamental assumption)
- 原則 /原则 noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
Czech
2 entries- axiom noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
- axiom noun (mathematics: fundamental assumption)
Danish
3 entries- aksiom noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
- aksiom noun (mathematics: fundamental assumption)
- aksiom noun (established principle in art or science)
Dutch
2 entries- axioma noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
- axioma noun (mathematics: fundamental assumption)
Esperanto
1 entries- aksiomo noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
Estonian
1 entries- aksioom noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
Finnish
4 entries- aksiomi noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
- aksiomi noun (mathematics: fundamental assumption)
- aksiooma noun (established principle in art or science)
- peruslause noun (mathematics: fundamental assumption)
French
2 entries- axiome noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
- axiome noun (mathematics: fundamental assumption)
Galician
1 entries- axioma noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
Georgian
1 entries- აქსიომა noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
German
4 entries- Annahme noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
- Ausgangspunkt noun (mathematics: fundamental assumption)
- Axiom noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
- Axiom noun (mathematics: fundamental assumption)
Greek
2 entries- αξίωμα noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
- αξίωμα noun (mathematics: fundamental assumption)
Hebrew
1 entries- אַקְסְיוֹמָה noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
Hindi
2 entries- अभिगृहीत noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
- स्वयंसिद्ध noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
Hungarian
2 entries- axióma noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
- axióma noun (mathematics: fundamental assumption)
Icelandic
4 entries- frumsannindi noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
- frumsenda noun (mathematics: fundamental assumption)
- frumsetning noun (mathematics: fundamental assumption)
- grundvallarregla noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
Ido
2 entries- axiomo noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
- axiomo noun (mathematics: fundamental assumption)
Indonesian
2 entries- aksioma noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
- aksioma noun (mathematics: fundamental assumption)
Irish
3 entries- aicsím noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
- aicsím noun (mathematics: fundamental assumption)
- aicsím noun (established principle in art or science)
Italian
2 entries- assioma noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
- assioma noun (mathematics: fundamental assumption)
Japanese
2 entries- 公理 noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
- 公理 noun (mathematics: fundamental assumption)
Kazakh
1 entries- аксиома noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
Khmer
1 entries- ស្វ័យសត្យ noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
Korean
2 entries- 공리 noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
- 공리 noun (mathematics: fundamental assumption)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- аксиома noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
Lao
1 entries- ກົດຄວາມຈິງ noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
Latin
2 entries- axiōma noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
- axiōma noun (mathematics: fundamental assumption)
Latvian
1 entries- aksioma noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
Lithuanian
1 entries- aksioma noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
Malay
1 entries- aksiom noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
Middle English
1 entries- axiom noun (mathematics: fundamental assumption)
Middle French
1 entries- axiome noun (mathematics: fundamental assumption)
Mongolian
1 entries- аксиом noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- aksiom noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
- aksiom noun (mathematics: fundamental assumption)
- aksiom noun (established principle in art or science)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- aksiom noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
- aksiom noun (mathematics: fundamental assumption)
- aksiom noun (established principle in art or science)
Old French
1 entries- axiome noun (mathematics: fundamental assumption)
Polish
4 entries- aksjomat noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
- aksjomat noun (mathematics: fundamental assumption)
- pewnik noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
- pewnik noun (mathematics: fundamental assumption)
Portuguese
3 entries- axioma noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
- axioma noun (mathematics: fundamental assumption)
- axioma noun (established principle in art or science)
Romanian
1 entries- axiomă noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
Russian
2 entries- аксио́ма noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
- аксио́ма noun (mathematics: fundamental assumption)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- aksìōm noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
- aksìōm noun (mathematics: fundamental assumption)
- aksìōm noun (established principle in art or science)
- аксѝо̄м noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
Slovak
2 entries- axióma noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
- axióma noun (mathematics: fundamental assumption)
Slovene
2 entries- aksiom noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
- aksiom noun (mathematics: fundamental assumption)
Spanish
3 entries- axioma noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
- axioma noun (mathematics: fundamental assumption)
- axioma noun (established principle in art or science)
Swedish
3 entries- axiom noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
- axiom noun (mathematics: fundamental assumption)
- axiom noun (established principle in art or science)
Tagalog
2 entries- batlain noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
- batlain noun (mathematics: fundamental assumption)
Thai
3 entries- ฐานบท noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
- สัจพจน์ noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
- สัจพจน์ noun (mathematics: fundamental assumption)
Turkish
1 entries- aksiyom noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
Ukrainian
1 entries- аксіо́ма noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
Uzbek
1 entries- aksioma noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
Vietnamese
4 entries- chân lí noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
- chân lý noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
- sự thật noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
- tiên đề noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
Volapük
1 entries- xiom noun (philosophy: supposed self‐evident or necessary truth)
Sample sentences
19 total sentences available.
Poe's Law is an axiom suggesting that it's difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish between parodies of religious or other fundamentalism and its genuine proponents, since they both seem equally insane.
Source: tatoeba (1569391)
This axiom is unquestionably true.
Source: tatoeba (9142593)
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
Source: tatoeba (10618419)
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