Full Idea
Concerning magnitude ...there are no axioms in the proper sense. ....Axioms ought to be synthetic a priori propositions.
Gist of Idea
Axioms ought to be synthetic a priori propositions
Source
Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason [1781], B205/A164)
Book Reference
Kant,Immanuel: 'Critique of Pure Reason', ed/tr. Guyer,P /Wood,A W [CUO 1998], p.288
A Reaction
This may be a hopeless dream, but it is (sort of) what all philosophers long for. Post-modern relativism may just be the claim that all axioms are analytic. Could a posteriori propositions every qualify as axioms?