The secularists who gathered the necessary signatures to hold a ballot have invoked one of the founding axioms of the Italian republic.
Every community built around an idea, a principle or an aim (from fox-hunting enthusiasts to Freudian psychotherapists) will always face hard arguments about where the boundaries of that community lie, and how far the meaning of its founding axioms can be stretched.
Frege aimed at founding arithmetic on axioms of logic and Hilbert proposed that geometry be founded upon purely formal axioms.
It is for this reason that Badiou claims "there cannot be a law of truth" and that a truth is not "axiomatic" even though the event is founded on an axiom (SP 14).
Where population genetics tends toward a branch of applied mathematics founded on Mendelian axioms, often with minimal contact with data, ecological genetics is grounded in the reciprocal interaction between mathematical theory and empirical observations from field and laboratory.
No anniversary program would have touched him more, I think, than the performance of "Des Canyons aux Étoiles" ("From the Canyons to the Stars") on Wednesday night at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater by the Axiom Ensemble, founded by Juilliard School students in 2005.
AS the author of "The American Religion," I learned a considerable respect for such original spiritual revelations as 19th-century Mormonism and early 20th-century Southern Baptism, admirably re-founded by the subtle theologian Edgar Young Mullins in his "Axioms of Religion".
We argued that, among the 4 axioms upon which the ICR is founded, adaptive immune responses are neither necessary nor sufficient to induce tissue-specific rejection but rather start a tissue-specific reaction in cases in which such specificity is not determined by other factors.
The World Council of Churches, a fellowship of Christian churches founded in 1948, has formulated what were sometimes called "middle axioms" (e.g., the notion of a "responsible society" or "justice, peace and the preservation of creation"), which were intended as common ground on which Christians and secular bodies could meet for thought and action.
