Emily Lake
Might be a replicant
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Axioms are either self-evidently true or are effectively non-provable in the context of the mathematical proof. Outside of mathematics, axioms can be treated as assumptions provisionally accepted as true because there is no counter argument and no contradiction inherent in them.
Beliefs have no requirement to be self-evidently true, nor are they provisionary assumptions. They are tenets not axioms.
That said, many ideologies *treat* their tenets as *axiomatic*. They assume them to be true and present them as facts. But they are not actually axioms.
Are you kidding! LOL!
How long have you been here watching the littany of Christians "looking for challenge" pass through claiming that they believe their beliefs because of how those beliefs make them feel, because they are "self evident" or even because they are "self reinforcing"?
If someone basis their worldview off of it, and it rests on nothing, it is an axiom.knterestingly, some axioms are circular to the other axioms, and that circularity impugns the axiom that creates it and the whole system in which it is "necessary' as being, itself, one that necessarily involves fallacy.
This is why Occam's Razor was first proposed, a.ong other purely philosophical observations.
You think a system of reality that operates first and foremost with mathematical precision and perfection is not itself limited by those very rules of math?
Um... no. You're simply wrong. Go find a dictionary, do some reading, and come back when you understand what an axiom is.