背诵第7-Axiomatized Science

The notion of an axiomatical system is elegant and intellectually attractive. Plato was attracted to it, and he suggested that the whole of human knowledge might somehow be set out as a single axiomatized science. From a small set of primary truths, every other truth might be logically deduced. Knowledge is thus systematic and unitary--it is systematic because it can be presented axiomatically, unitary because all truths can be derived from a single set of axioms.