Monday, November 28, 2011

Axiomatic

"Axiomatic" comes from the Greek "axios" (worthy) an in geometry it means something WORTHY of being accepted as intuitively obvious but without proof because if EVERYTHING were proven in theorems then that would mean an infinite number of theorems. In a sense an axiom is something we accept as being true but cannot PROVE true yet that which is proven is more cogent and compelling.

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