primitive notion in a sentence

Examples

1. Hence the ordered pair can be taken as a primitive notion, whose associated axiom is the characteristic property.
2. More specifically, in Euclidean geometry, a point is a primitive notion upon which the geometry is built.
3. In some but not all formalisations of concatenation theory, also called string theory, string concatenation is a primitive notion.
4. And the primitive notion of defending a fortress, which is Beene's stance against those who would criticize American sportswear.
5. A dark satire, the book parodies primitive notions of gender, sexual difference and identity from a post-feminist perspective.
6. Because homeomorphisms can be described entirely in terms of derived sets, derived sets have been used as the primitive notion in topology.
7. Since he treated the subject of primitive notions in geometry and set theory, this text is a watershed in the development of logicism.
8. At its heart is a fear and loathing of sex that originates largely from a primitive notion of women's bodies as essentially unclean.
9. Augustin-Louis Cauchy gave a definition of limit in terms of a more primitive notion he called a " variable quantity ".
10. He also proposed an axiomatic foundation for the natural numbers, whose primitive notions were the number set of axioms, now the standard ones.