axiom

Example Sentences

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Pathway has identified what Stamirowska calls equations of reasoning, fundamental mathematical axioms that explain how intelligence emerges from smaller, local interactions in the brain, she said.

From The Wall Street Journal

“I call it an axiom of emotions. No matter how artificial something might be, the emotions are always true.”

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Salon

Under Lasorda’s axiom, no team wins more than two-thirds of its games.

From Los Angeles Times

But lately I’ve been worried that the glut of documentary content required to fill the yawning maw of streamers is putting this axiom to the test more frequently.

From New York Times