English-French translations for axiom

• axiome
  C'est l'axiome fondamental et chaque partie au conflit doit lui accorder la même valeur si nous voulons un jour une véritable paix dans cette région. This is the fundamental axiom which each party to the conflict must hold equally important, if there is ever to be true peace in that region.
  Cet axiome a été défini à plusieurs reprises par la Cour de justice et pourrait se résumer à l'idée que toute disposition nationale contraire au droit communautaire est nulle. This axiom has been repeatedly defined by the Court of Justice and could be summed up in the idea that any national decision which is contrary to Community law is inapplicable.
  C'est pourquoi, en tant que rapporteur, j'ai voulu que la responsabilité morale et juridique de l'Europe vis-à-vis du peuple Iraquien soit l'axiome fondamental de ce rapport. That is why, as rapporteur, I wanted the fundamental axiom of this report to be the moral and legal responsibility of Europe towards the Iraqi people.
• précepte

Definition of axiom

• A seemingly self-evident or necessary truth which is based on assumption; a principle or proposition which cannot actually be proved or disproved
• A fundamental assumption that serves as a basis for deduction of theorems; a postulate (sometimes distinguished from postulates as being universally applicable, whereas postulates are particular to a certain science or context
• An established principle in some artistic practice or science that is universally received

Examples

• The axioms of political economy cannot be considered absolute truths

Related words

• axiomatic
• axiomatical
• axiomatically
• axioma
• axiomatization
• axiomatize
• axiomatise
• axiomatisable
• axiomatizable