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...seems almost ridiculous that an athletic axiom as firmly ingrained in every Harvard graduate and undergraduate as this should be questioned at all, and that it be questioned upon so slight a provocation as the one now advanced is doubly surprising...
Fichte's masterpiece, "Uber der Begriff der Wissenchaftslehre," was written with the purpose of proving the theoretical and practical philosophy of Immanuel Kant. His greatest axiom was "act according to your predestination" because he regarded the laws of one's individually as supreme. He was a powerful influence in the natural philosophy of Schelling and in the dogma of identity of Hegel...
...present time, however, the tendency is to regard theism as a conclusion rather than as an axiom. Throughtful men nowadays do not consider revelations as miraculous disclosures direct from God, but rather as the gradual awakening of an inward impelling force for good. This conception is in line with a changed idea of man. Of late years it has come to be believed that the will, the ambition and the emotions should be considered co-ordinate with the reason as guides to man's actions. This idea brings with it the feeling that a conviction due to perfectly worked...
...fundamental axiom of statistical science is that if the numbers of a class, that is, persons born, are indefinitely increased under constant conditions, the proportion of instances distinguished by some specific attribute called an average, converges to a fixed limit. The limit is often given not so much by exact numeration as by a presumption based on general experience. The premises of "inverse probability" rest mostly on this sort of evidence; which seems also to underlie some economic theorems. Of a similar character is the evidence that many kinds of events are practically independent of each other. From this presumption...
...prime consideration in respect to the substance presented is the amount and reliability of the evidence adduced to support each argument. This evidence cannot be too specifle. In the development of a University team it is an axiom that every contention drawn from an outside source be followed by full information as to the source and this even to the detail of a writer's official title or the page and name of the volume quoted. Mere rhetoric and as sertion unaccompanied by proof are considered of slight worth, and while the skiltul use of persuasion is encouraged, the ultimate...