Sentences with word «axiomatic»

It is simply untrue that, as even Bultmann appears to suppose, the idea of a self - subsistent, finite universe is accepted as axiomatic in the modern world.

The notoriously austere axioms for an abstract group or a topological space resemble cosmetically any number of simple axiomatic systems that one might construct.

Instead, our schools of education continue to focus on 19th - and early 20th - century theorists such as Dewey, Vygotsky, Bruner, Piaget, and Montessori, still treating their work «as the source of axiomatic truth.»

In The Closing of the American Mind, which appeared in 1987, Alan Bloom wrote that among young people «openness» had ascended to the status of supreme moral principle, just as «relativism» had become axiomatic in philosophy.

Allah is almost axiomatic for capriciousness

One of the most axiomatic principles of investing is the relationship between risk and reward.

Lewis theology aside (an evangelical against purgatory seems axiomatic) the reason Americans didn't pick up on Lewis was because if his personal habits?

After his endless lectures about purity, Frank Stella pushed his early axiomatic approach so far that The Marriage of Reason and Squalor collapsed long ago.

That seems so axiomatic to us today that it is accepted as a truism and seldom stated.

Necessity rules only within the system of propositions resulting from a particular freely posited axiomatic base.

In her 1979 article «Sculpture in the Expanded Field,» Rosalind Krauss diagrams postmodernist works such as Andre's with newly created descriptions such as axiomatic structures.

«It is sadly becoming axiomatic among many that religious faith is incompatible with a scientific world view.

A reasoner is held to be in error if he can be shown to affirm both a proposition and its contradiction, within the same axiomatic framework.

It is virtually axiomatic in higher education circles that the more money spent on the educational enterprise the better the results.

This was based on axiomatic assumptions rather than formulation of explanations that deal adequately with what was once attributed to God.

``... global government is condemned out of hand because almost by definition it is a despotic, inefficient, bumbling, axiomatic pipe dream.»

Its quality is basically axiomatic at this point.

I suggested to one Bangladeshi business leader running a firm with an annual turnover of # 40m, that in communities with more than 90 % Muslim populations it was almost axiomatic most school governors would themselves be of the Islamic faith.

Using his characteristic jagged line and raw brushstroke, he presents chaotic, image - strewn landscapes as well as more axiomatic works that center on film archetypes.

This approach is supposed to explain everything by means of a purely axiomatic process, as if this were THE Economic Truth.

Strictly speaking we would need a few other assumptions in order to turn economics into a fully axiomatic system.

The bible does say that there was a creation, but that is axiomatic given that we're here.

So as we grow and develop our personalities and adaptive strategies, which are largely unconscious, we will have cause to reference various axiomatic truths that some can always find fault with.

But the acceptance of a position which much of Protestant Christianity regards as axiomatic does not make the Reorganization a Protestant church.

The goal of Principia Mathematica is to provide a formal system which attempts to encapsulate the whole of pure mathematics in a complete axiomatic system — an enterprise which, according to the theory of Gödel, was doomed to failure.

For Goodwin, like John Kenneth Galbraith, Robert Heilbroner, Douglas Dowd, and so many others, is really questioning whether certain American axioms are still axiomatic.

For the Greek it is in the first place axiomatic that God, like other objects of the world, can be examined by the thinking observer; that there can be a theology in the exact, immediate sense.

This is the understanding of the remedium concupiscentiae which has established itself among Catholic theologians and moralists - to the point of being considered well - nigh axiomatic.

However, we also must recognize that Whitehead's critique of modernism radically deconstructs the possibility of an unbiased, axiomatic center that can be abstracted from the whole.

Movements that seek to block out the effects of axiomatic constructions of reality through meditation, drugs, or religious experiences also sharpen their members» sensitivities to the nature of symbolism.

This, in turn, is soon rejected by the founders of a new axiomatic system attempting to explain the evolution of humanity instead of seeking Jungian archetypes, the resurgence of which has coincided with the turning point of Caesar's or Napoleon's career.

Also a number of our philosophers of history, in their discouragement, reduce the unfolding of events to the mathematical application of an arbitrary axiomatic system of their own invention.

Reason, as a process of systematic reflection, replaces absolute axiomatic laws as the basis on which cultural meaning and coherence rests.

He surmised we were «falling behind in the struggle,» and the work needed to reestablish what was axiomatic just twenty - five years ago can seem daunting in a society where public opinion is now roughly split 50/50 but the biggest media and celebrity voices are solidly in one corner.

Whatever axiomatic system you base your calculations on, there are true statements that lie beyond the system's reach.