Inquiry vs Axiom - What's the difference?
inquiry | axiom |
The act of inquiring; a seeking of information by asking questions; interrogation; a question or questioning.
Search for truth, information, or knowledge; examination of facts or principles; research; investigation; as, physical inquiries.
(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.
As nouns the difference between inquiry and axiom
is that inquiry is the act of inquiring; a seeking of information by asking questions; interrogation; a question or questioning while axiom is axiom.inquiry
English
(wikipedia inquiry)Alternative forms
* enquiryNoun
(inquiries)Usage notes
According to Fowler's Modern English Usage'' (1926), ''inquiry'' should be used in relation to a formal inquest, and ''enquiry'' to the act of questioning. Many (though not all) British writers maintain this distinction; the Oxford English Dictionary, in its entry not updated since 1900, lists ''inquiry'' and ''enquiry'' as equal alternatives, in that order. Some British dictionaries, such as ''Chambers 21st Century Dictionary'' [http://www.chambersharrap.co.uk/chambers/features/chref/chref.py/main?title=21st&query=inquiry], present the two spellings as interchangeable variants in the general sense, but prefer ''inquiry'' for the "formal inquest" sense. In Australian English, ''inquiry'' represents a formal inquest (such as a government investigation) while ''enquiry'' is used in the act of questioning (eg: the customer enquired about the status of his loan application). Both spellings are current in Canadian English, where ''enquiry'' is often associated with scholarly or intellectual research. (See Pam Peters, ''The Cambridge Guide to English Usage , p. 282.) American English usually uses inquiry .References
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English
(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.