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DOGMA AND AXIOM.

It appears important to distinguish between `dogma` and `axiom`. Axiom is a 
statement accepted as root of a theory, without deductive apriori proof. However, 
its validity is limited and RELATIVE to that theory and it is subject to inductive, 
a posteriori proof. Any rational theory has to be justified by conformity of its 
theorems (or axioms by inference) with expected deductive or experimental results. 
 
Experimental: axiom of Ether has been introduced IN ORDER to found a theory 
consistently coordinating and predicting the behavior of light. Its nature is 
TELEOLOGICAL, it is RELATIVE to its author`s objective. Its validity is RELATIVE 
and limited to the `Ether Model` and it is UNCERTAIN as subject to a posteriori 
experimental verification of deduced theorems. MM experiment contradicted one and, 
consequently, the axiom and the theory were scrapped. 

Deductive: Since the discovery of Russell`s Paradox most of research in the 
Set Theory dealt with elimination of Antinomies. Successive, carefully chosen 
axioms have been added and the free of Antinomies ZF version created.
This result justifies a posteriori the axioms.

To resume:
Axiom is teleological and RELATIVE to author`s objective,
Axiom is RELATIVE to theory,
Axiom has to be PROVED a posteriori.
Conclusion:
AXIOM IS RELATIVE AND DEBATABLE.

Dogma, on the contrary is ABSOLUTE AND FIXED. Discuss Mary`s Virginity, let 
alone call it in question, is blasphemous. Your opponent is not wrong, he is evil, 
you do not try to convince him, nor to argue; you fight him; fight with such arms 
as the current state of the involved Inquisition makes available: Demagogy, Stakes, 
Holy War, Genocide.

In a particular case of a theory B FOUNDED in a FOUNDING theory A, theorems of A 
are accepted as Axioms of B. Such Founded Axioms have all axiom's characteristics 
specified above with one addition: Their refutal calls in the question the 
founding theory.
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