Talk:ἀξίωμα

RFV discussion: July 2022–January 2023
Ancient Greek. Rfv-sense: “that which a pupil is required to know beforehand”. Perhaps Ancient Greek teachers required Ancient Greek pupils to know some axioms (“beforehand”? before what? before taking lessons?), but would such a requirement then be part of the meaning of the term? This specific sense is not present in L&S or Bailly. --Lambiam 08:19, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
 * It's defined as something that's taught to a pupil as a first principle in the rather obscure Definitiones of (pseudo-)Hero of Alexandria: "An axiom is according to Aristotle a proposition that is to be accepted as a first principle which is both comprehensible for the pupil and convincing according to itself". But this is definitely just an interpretation of the next sense, "a self-evident principle, axiom", and I don't think constitutes a separate sense any more than it would for axiom in "Students will need to learn a few axioms to get started" in English. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 17:50, 30 December 2022 (UTC)


 * RFV-failed. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 20:23, 11 January 2023 (UTC)