axioms

Last week, the insightful article “7 Strategic Axioms for the Anxious Progressive Voter” offered a forward-looking way to put this presidential election in a future context: “Vote for the candidate you want to organize against!”

While this latest bump in the road in the three-year, multijurisdictional effort to bring Donald Trump to justice is likely to spark yet another chorus of legal axioms such as “justice delayed is justice denied” and “the wheels of justice grind slowly,” my immediate reference point is not legal scholars but to baseball’s legendary “old professor,” Casey Stengel.

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

The set should have as few axioms as possible, and they should be intuitively true and not too complicated.

For example, you could append the statement “The continuum hypothesis is true” to the group of axioms.