In " De l'Art de persuader " ( " On the Art of Persuasion " ), Pascal looked deeper into geometry's axiomatic method, specifically the question of how people come to be convinced of the axioms upon which later conclusions are based.
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For example, the Bourbaki group adopted a watered-down and selective version of it as adequate to the requirements of their twin projects of ( a ) writing encyclopedic foundational works, and ( b ) supporting the axiomatic method as a research tool.
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Having selected the class he would tell them briefly his view of the axiomatic method : there were certain undefined terms ( e . g .,'point'and'region') which had meaning restricted ( or controlled ) by the axioms ( e . g ., a region is a point set ).
