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Axiom vs Apothegm - What's the difference?

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Axiom is a related term of apothegm.


As nouns the difference between axiom and apothegm

is that axiom is axiom while apothegm is a short, witty, instructive saying; an aphorism or maxim.

axiom

English

(wikipedia axiom)

Noun

  • (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".
  • *
    • The axioms read as follows. For every composable pair f'' and ''g'' the composite f \circ g goes from the domain of ''g'' to the codomain of ''f''. For each object ''A'' the identity arrow 1_A 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.
  • An established principle in some artistic practice or science that is universally received.
    • The axioms of political economy cannot be considered absolute truths.

    Synonyms

    * (now rare)

    Hypernyms

    * (in logic) well-formed formula, wff, WFF

    Hyponyms

    * (in mathematics) * (in mathematics) * (in mathematics)

    Holonyms

    * (in logic) formal system

    Derived terms

    *

    Related terms

    * axiomatize * axiomatization

    See also

    (other terms of interest) * conjecture * corollary * demonstration * hypothesis * law * lemma * porism * postulate * premise * principle * proof * proposition * theorem * theory * truism

    External links

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    apothegm

    English

    Alternative forms

    * apophthegm

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A short, witty, instructive saying; an aphorism or maxim.
  • * 1665 , , The English Rogue: De?cribed, in the Life of Merington Latroon, A Witty Extravagant, Being a Compleat Hi?tory of the Mo?t Eminent Cheats of Both Sexes , Henry Marsh, page 355,
    • Every gla?s of wine, or bit almo?t, that I committed to my mouth, ?he u?hered thither with ?ome Apothegm or other: the whole ?eries, indeed, of her di?cour?e, was compo?ed of nothing but rea?on or wit, which made me admire her; which ?he ea?ily under?tood, I perceived by her ?miles, when ?he ob?erved me gaping, as it were, when ?he ?poke, as if I would have eaten up her Words.
  • * 1920 ,
    • "You are too wonderful!" he would say. "How do you find time for everything?"
    She rejoined with the apophthegm that made the rounds of Riseholme next day.
    "My dear, it is just busy people that have time for everything."
  • * 2008 , , ISBN 978-0-441-01575-7, page 114,
    • Which means roughly that business keeps one safe from love—ominous talk when one’s lover is a courtesan. I hoped that it was just another literary conceit I ought to know. (It is, I later learned, an apothegm by .)

    Synonyms

    * See .