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Axiom vs Platitude - What's the difference?

axiom | platitude |

As nouns the difference between axiom and platitude

is that axiom is a seemingly {{l/en|self-evident}} or necessary {{l/en|truth}} which is based on {{l/en|assumption}}; a {{l/en|principle}} or {{l/en|proposition}} which cannot actually be proved or disproved while platitude is an often-quoted saying that is supposed to be meaningful but has become unoriginal or hackneyed through overuse; a cliché.

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".
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    • 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

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    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

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    platitude

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An often-quoted saying that is supposed to be meaningful but has become unoriginal or hackneyed through overuse; a .
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    • Beauty, I suppose, opens the heart, extends the consciousness. It is a platitude , of course.
  • Unoriginality; triteness.
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  • A claim that is trivially true, to the point of being uninteresting.

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