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From: pase@ogcvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Processing
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Date: Thu, 23-Apr-87 11:09:39 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 23 11:09:39 1987
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Reply-To: pase@ogcvax.UUCP (Douglas M. Pase)
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In article <bu-cs.6872> bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) writes:
> [...]
>Yes, but that is not an axiom, it is a shibboleth. An axiom is
>something you can prove.

I beg your pardon?  According to Webster (1942 ed.)

ax'iom (ak'si.um), n. [From L., fr. Gr. *axioma*, fr. *axioun* to think worthy,
fr. *axios* worthy.]  1. An accepted maxim.  2. *Logic & Math.*  A statement of
a self-evident truth;  thus, the statement that the whole is greater than any
of its parts is an *axiom*.  3. An extablished principle which is universally
received; as, the *axioms* of science.
-- 
Doug Pase   --   ...ucbvax!tektronix!ogcvax!pase  or  pase@Oregon-Grad (CSNet)