maxim

Roget category 496

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.5. Results of reasoning
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#496. Maxim

noun

maxim, aphorism — apothegm, apophthegm^† — dictum, saying, adage, saw, proverb — sentence, mot [Fr.], motto, word, byword, moral, phylactery, protasis^†.
axiom, theorem, scholium^†, truism, postulate.
first principles, a priori fact, assumption (supposition) 514.
reflection etc. (idea) 453 — conclusion etc. (judgment) 480 — golden rule etc. (precept) 697 — principle, principia [Lat.] — profession of faith etc. (belief) 484 — settled principle, accepted principle, formula.
accepted fact.
received truth, wise maxim, sage maxim, received maxim, admitted maxim, recognized maxim &c. — true saying, common saying, hackneyed saying, trite saying, commonplace saying etc.

adjective

aphoristic, proverbial, phylacteric^† — axiomatic, gnomic.

adverb

as the saying goes, as the saying is, as they say.

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