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Axioms vs Dogma - What's the difference?

axioms | dogma |

As nouns the difference between axioms and dogma

is that axioms is while dogma is .

axioms

English

Noun

(head)
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    dogma

    English

    (wikipedia dogma)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • An authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true regardless of evidence, or without evidence to support it.
  • ''The unforgiving dogma of Stalinism is that what the party leader, however cruel and incompetent, decrees, however absurd, must be accepted as law.
  • A doctrine (or set of doctrines) relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth authoritatively by a religious organization or leader.
  • In the Catholic Church, new dogmas can only be declared by the pope after the extremely rare procedure ''ex cathedra'' to make them part of the official faith.

    Derived terms

    * dogmatic * dogmatical * dogmatics * dogmatic theology * dogmatism * dogmatist * dogmatize

    See also

    * axioma * creed