‘Axiom’ (pub. 20.11.15-10:00). Quote in M. Bergman & S. Paavola (Eds.), The Commens Dictionary: Peirce's Terms in His Own Words. New Edition. Retrieved from http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-sketch-dichotomic-mathematics-6.
Quote:
Any Axiom would be a proposition not deducible from anything asserted in the definitions and postulates, but immediately evident in view of the facts that have been laid down and these are true.
Source:
Peirce, C. S. (1904). Sketch of Dichotomic Mathematics. MS [R] 4.
URL:
http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-sketch-dichotomic-mathematics-6