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Apriori vs Axiomatic - What's the difference?

apriori | axiomatic |

As an adverb apriori

is .

As an adjective axiomatic is

axiomatic.

apriori

English

Adverb

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    axiomatic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Evident without proof or argument.
  • * 1932 , , Brave New World :
  • The students nodded, emphatically agreeing with a statement which upwards of sixty-two thousand repetitions in the dark had made them accept, not merely as true, but as axiomatic , self-evident, utterly indisputable.
  • * 1984 , , Welsh v. Wisconsin, United States Supreme Court (66 U.S. 740, 748)
  • It is axiomatic that the "physical entry of the home is the chief evil against which the wording of the Fourth Amendment is directed."
  • Of or pertaining to an axiom.
  • (informal) Obvious.
  • Synonyms

    * axiomatical * self-evident

    Derived terms

    * axiomatically