ax·i·o·mat·ic

(ăk′sē-ə-măt′ĭk) also ax·i·o·mat·i·cal (-ĭ-kəl)

adj.

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).

ax′i·o·mat′i·cal·ly adv.

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axiomatical - of or relating to or derived from axioms; "axiomatic physics"; "the postulational method was applied to geometry"- S.S.Stevens

postulational, axiomatic

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(68) For Armstrong, 'the merit or fault of the verse, indeed the very meaning of the verse, belongs solely to the axiomatical proposition to which, Fraunce claims, it refers'.

Ramist Dialectic, Poetic Examples, and the Uses of Pastoral in Abraham Fraunce's The Shepherds' Logic

What we saw there was an elegant axiomatical construction and the theorem to which this construction led.

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