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AXIM

Volume 1 · 56 words · 1771 Edition

a town on the Gold Coast of Guinea, where the Dutch have a fort and factory, called St. Anthony: 4° W. long. and 5° N. lat.

AXIOM, in philosophy, any plain, self-evident, and received notion, that cannot be made more plain and evident by demonstration. It is also an established principle in some art or science.