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5. Theory of Logic / K. Features of Logics / 1. Axiomatisation

19632	An axiom has no more authority than a frenzy [Cioran]
	Full Idea: This earth is a place where can confirm anything with an equal likelihood: here axioms and frenzies are interchangeable.
	From: E.M. Cioran (A Short History of Decay [1949], 3)
	A reaction: A perceptive and poetic expression of the modern anti-Euclidean and anti-Fregean view of axioms, as purely formal features of a model or system.