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Upon the axiomatical principles of philosophy it is an utter and absolute impossibility to unite in repletion the divine and the human in the same being.

From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Graves, Kersey

These two things are evidently different; and, for the sake of distinctness in our language, as well as in our thoughts, I shall call the first a logical, and the last an axiomatical necessity.

From An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor

This sophism confounds the axiomatical necessity referred to in the premise, that it must rain or not rain, with the causal necessity intended to be deduced from it in the conclusion.

From An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor

Can we make any approximation to axiomatical truth for ourselves?

From History of American Socialisms by Noyes, John Humphrey

Here we have precisely the same confusion of an axiomatical with a causal necessity, that occurs in the argument of Mr. Hobbes.

From An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor