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@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ We concur with those founders and follow their example by issuing this statement
 - And whereas these two -- existence and consciousness -- are axioms humankind cannot escape: these two are the irreducible primaries implied in any action one undertakes, in any part of one's knowledge.
 - And whereas whatever one knows, the axioms remain the same: that it exists and that the subject does know it; and moreover, whereas to be is to be something, of a definite nature and all existents are identities:
 
-We who are present here, hold these axioms to be self-evident and self-reaffirming: that **Existence is Identity and Consciousness is Identification**.
+We who are present here, hold this to be axiomatic and self-reaffirming: that **Existence is Identity and Consciousness is Identification**.
 
 We hold that humankind are rational creatures possessing rational consciousness which is their only tool of survival and that to hamper a rational creature's mind is to hamper its ability to live and flourish - thus a man's right to life is his right to the unhampered use of his rational faculty in the pursuit of his life and flourishing.