PRINCIPLE

A basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct

Example: "Their principles of composition characterized all their works"

• rule  4

• generalisation  15
• generality  14
• generalization  24

• pillar  8
• yang  8
• yin  6
• feng shui

A rule or standard especially of good behavior

Example: "A man of principle"

• value  8

• accounting principle
• accounting standard
• chivalry  19
• knightliness  20
• • ethic  10
  • moral principle
  • value-system
  • value orientation
  • hellenism
  • judicial doctrine
  • judicial principle
  • legal principle
  • scruple  11
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A basic truth or law or assumption

Example: "The principles of democracy"

• law  6
• natural law

• dictate  10
• basic principle
• basics  10
• bedrock  16
• • fundamental principle
  • fundamentals  18
  • logic  8
  • pleasure-pain principle
  • pleasure-unpleasure principle
  • pleasure principle
  • reality principle
  • insurrectionism  19
  • conservation  17
  • tao  3
  • dharma  12
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A rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system

Example: "The principle of the conservation of mass"

• rule  4

• law  6
• law of nature

• gestalt law of organization
• gestalt principle of organization
• le chatelier's law
• le chatelier's principle
• • le chatelier-braun principle
  • le chatelier principle
  • gresham's law
  • mass-energy equivalence
  • naegele's rule
  • law of parsimony
  • occam's razor
  • ockham's razor
  • principle of parsimony
  • principle of equivalence
  • principle of liquid displacement
  • huygens' principle of superposition
  • principle of superposition
  • principle of superposition
  • superposition  17
  • superposition principle
  • mass-action principle
  • mass action
  • localisation  14
  • localisation of function
  • localisation principle
  • localization  23
  • localization of function
  • localization principle
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Rule of personal conduct

• precept  13

• prescript  15
• rule  4

• higher law
• moral principle
• hypothetical imperative
• caveat emptor

(law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature)

Example: "The rationale for capital punishment"

• rationale  9

• explanation  20

• dialectics  15