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What difference between a theorem and an axiom?

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Basically, anything declared to be true and accepted, but does not have any proof or has some practical way ofproving it, is an axiom. It is also sometimes referred to as a postulate, or an assumption. A theorem, by definition, is a statement proven based on axioms, other theorems, and some set of logical connectives

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