Abjure vs Axiom - What's the difference?
abjure | axiom |
To renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow.
(transitive, obsolete, historical) To cause one to renounce or recant.
To reject with solemnity; to abandon forever; to repudiate; to disclaim.
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To abstain from; to avoid; to shun.
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(en noun); also axiomata (though, becoming less common and sometimes considered archaic)
(philosophy) A seemingly which cannot actually be proved or disproved.
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(mathematics, logic, proof theory) A fundamental of theorems. Examples: "Through a pair of distinct points there passes exactly one straight line", "All right angles are congruent".
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An established principle in some artistic practice or science that is universally received.
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English
Verb
(abjur)- To abjure allegiance to a prince.
- To abjure the realm (to swear to abandon it forever).
- To abjure errors.
- But this rough magic I here abjure [...]
Synonyms
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axiom
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(wikipedia axiom)Noun
- The axioms read as follows. For every composable pair f'' and ''g'' the composite goes from the domain of ''g'' to the codomain of ''f''. For each object ''A'' the identity arrow goes from ''A'' to ''A . Composing any arrow with an identity arrow (supposing that the two are composable) gives the original arrow. And composition is associative.
- The axioms of political economy cannot be considered absolute truths.