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How can you use “axioms” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
And he pays for this lack of political refinement, as the political oddsmakers portray him as a boorish ideologue and rhetorical bumbler prone to such "Armey Axioms" as "You can't put your finger on a problem when you've got it to the wind."
To recap: The two great axioms of the book are: 1) Great powers constantly test each other for dominance, and if one side shrinks from a fight, even a symbolic one as in Vietnam, its perceived "weakness" will cascade into real weakness, as other countries classify it as a loser.
It's the second big blow to Hilbert's legacy: His audacious attempt to ground all mathematics in a finite number of axioms was upended by Gödel's incompleteness theorem in 1931.
Quite aside from its religious aura, the new theory contradicted their belief in the infinity and eternity of matter--one of the axioms of Lenin's dialectical materialism--and was accordingly dismissed as "idealistic."
If you're looking to explain all human behavior on the basis of a few simple axioms, it's a warning.