axiom

axiom has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• a.. A self-evident and necessary truth, or a proposition whose truth is so evident as first sight that no reasoning or demonstration can make it plainer; a proposition which it is necessary to take for granted; as, "The whole is greater than a part;" "A thing can not, at the same time, be and not be."
• a.. An established principle in some art or science, which, though not a necessary truth, is universally received; as, the axioms of political economy.
• n.. (logic) a proposition that is not susceptible of proof or disproof; its truth is assumed to be self-evident
• n.. a saying that is widely accepted on its own merits