Definition of "axiomatic" []

• Of, relating to, or resembling an axiom; self-evident: "It's axiomatic in politics that voters won't throw out a presidential incumbent unless they think his challenger will clean house” ( Peter Grier). (adjective)

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• "‡ The term axiomatic is used generally to refer to a statement so obvious that it needs no proof."
• "Therefore in speculative matters the same truth holds among all men both as to principles and as to conclusions, even though all men do not discern this truth in the conclusions but only in those principles which are called axiomatic notions."
• "I would prefer to see them described as axiomatic, and that they are not consistent with any medical concept of which I am aware."