Axiological ethics
the branch of ethics dealing primarily with the relative goodness or value of the motives and end of any action.
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the branch of philosophy dealing with values, as those of ethics, aesthetics, or religion. noun (philosophy) the theory of values, moral or aesthetic
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- Axiom of comprehension
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axiom schema logic a formula in the language of an axiomatic system, containing one or more. these metasyntactic variables (or “schematic variables”) that stand for terms or subformulae. an example is the axiom of comprehension. (2009-02-10)
- Axiomatic set theory
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