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Axioms Quotes

Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence.

Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence.

John Searle
Existence, Axioms
"Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language". Book by John Searle, 1969.

AXIOM. — Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Increase, Property, Axioms
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2016). “What is Property?”, p.90, Cosimo Classics

A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.

L. Ron Hubbard
Deals, Scientology, Axioms

Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence.

Samuel Johnson
School, Prudence, Axioms
Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of the English poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: including the series edited with prefaces, biographical and critical”, p.277

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