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principle
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French principe, from Latin pr?ncipium (“beginning, foundation”), from pr?nceps (“first”); see prince.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p??ns?p?l/, /?p??ns?p?l/
- Hyphenation: prin?ci?ple
- Homophone: principal
Noun
principle (plural principles)
- A fundamental assumption or guiding belief.
- Let us consider ‘my dog is asleep on the floor’ again. Frege thinks that this sentence can be analyzed in various different ways. Instead of treating it as expressing the application of __ is asleep on the floor to my dog, we can think of it as expressing the application of the concept
my dog is asleep on __
to the object
the floor
(see Frege 1919). Frege recognizes what is now a commonplace in the logical analysis of natural language. We can attribute more than one logical form to a single sentence. Let us call this the principle of multiple analyses. Frege does not claim that the principle always holds, but as we shall see, modern type theory does claim this.
- Let us consider ‘my dog is asleep on the floor’ again. Frege thinks that this sentence can be analyzed in various different ways. Instead of treating it as expressing the application of __ is asleep on the floor to my dog, we can think of it as expressing the application of the concept
- A rule used to choose among solutions to a problem.
- (sometimes pluralized) Moral rule or aspect.
- I don't doubt your principles.
- You are clearly a person of principle.
- It's the principle of the thing; I won't do business with someone I can't trust.
- (physics) A rule or law of nature, or the basic idea on how the laws of nature are applied.
- Bernoulli's Principle
- The Pauli Exclusion Principle prevents two fermions from occupying the same state.
- The principle of the internal combustion engine
- A fundamental essence, particularly one producing a given quality.
- 1845, William Gregory, Outlines of Chemistry
- Cathartine is the bitter, purgative principle of senna.
- 1845, William Gregory, Outlines of Chemistry
- (obsolete) A beginning.
- A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause.
- 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of Being Religious
- The soul of man is an active principle.
- 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of Being Religious
- An original faculty or endowment.
- 1828, Dugal Stewart, The Philosophy of the Active and Moral Powers of Man
- those active principles whose direct and ultimate object is the communication either of enjoyment or suffering
- 1828, Dugal Stewart, The Philosophy of the Active and Moral Powers of Man
Usage notes
- Principle ("moral rule"), as a noun, is often confused with principal, which can be an adjective ("most important") or a noun ("school principal"). A memory aid to avoid this confusion is: "The principal alphabetic principle places A before E".
Synonyms
- (moral rule or aspect): tenet
Derived terms
Related terms
- prince
- principal
- principality
Translations
Verb
principle (third-person singular simple present principles, present participle principling, simple past and past participle principled)
- (transitive) To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet or rule of conduct.
- Let an enthusiast be principled that he or his teacher is inspired.
Further reading
- principle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- principle in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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conviction
English
Etymology
From late Middle English conviction, from Anglo-Norman conviction, from Latin convicti?, from convictus, the past participle of convinc? (“to convict”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n?v?k??n/
Noun
conviction (countable and uncountable, plural convictions)
- (countable) A firmly held belief.
- (countable) A judgement of guilt in a court of law.
- (uncountable) The state of being found or proved guilty.
- (uncountable) The state of being wholly convinced.
- 2013, Daniel Taylor, Rickie Lambert's debut goal gives England victory over Scotland (in The Guardian, 14 August 2013)[3]
- The visitors were being pinned back by the end of the first half. Yet Gordon Strachan's side played with great conviction and always had a chance of springing a surprise when their opponents were so susceptible at the back.
- 2013, Daniel Taylor, Rickie Lambert's debut goal gives England victory over Scotland (in The Guardian, 14 August 2013)[3]
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:obstinacy
Derived terms
- courage of one's convictions
Related terms
- convict
Translations
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin convictio, convictionem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??.vik.sj??/
- Homophone: convictions
- Hyphenation: con?vic?tion
Noun
conviction f (plural convictions)
- conviction
Derived terms
- pièce à conviction
Related terms
- convaincre
Further reading
- “conviction” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
conviction From the web:
- what convictions cannot be expunged
- what conviction means
- what convictions result in an insurance surcharge
- what convictions can be expunged
- what convictions do you live by
- what conviction is shared by all confucians
- what convictions stop entry to canada
- what convictions prevent gun ownership
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