as in principles
formal
a statement by an authority of how people should behave
the moral precepts of a religion
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axioms
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The hope of deriving one set of rules, or axioms, to govern all mathematical truths was fatally undermined.—
Theodore McDarrah,
Forbes,
14 Jan. 2025 -
The experts then had to agree on the fundamental truths, or axioms, that were accepted as true even thought they could not be proven.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
1 Oct. 2024
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