axiom

It was once treated as an axiom of art history that Western art represented the pinnacle of human creativity.人们曾把西方艺术代表了人类创造力的巅峰视为艺术史的一条公理。

The axiom that history is written by the victors has never been more than a partial truth.“历史由胜利者书写”这一公理从来都只是部分真理。