Sucrose found in a fruit and sucrose used to bake a cake are identical. All have the same calorific values (4 kcal/ 17 kJ of energy per gram). The body does not distinguish between sugars used in manufactured food and drinks or in the home, and those found naturally in foods.
Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: 1  maxim, axiom(noun) a saying that is widely accepted on its own merits. 2  axiom(noun) (logic) a proposition that is not susceptible of proof or disproof; its truth is assumed to be self-evident.
foundations of mathematics. ...1, where 0 is the empty set and 1 is the set consisting of 0 alone. Both definitions require an extralogical axiom to make them workâthe axiom of infinity, which postulates the existence of an infinite set. Since the simplest infinite set is the set of natural numbers, one cannot really say that arithmetic has been reduced to logic.