English Dictionary

principle

/ˈpɹɪnsɪpəl/

noun

A fundamental assumption or guiding belief. / A rule used to choose among solutions to a problem. / (sometimes pluralized) Moral rule or aspect.

Honesty is a principle that I live by.

意味（1）

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

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.

意味（2）

A rule used to choose among solutions to a problem.

The principle of least privilege holds that a process should only receive the permissions it needs.

意味（3）

(sometimes pluralized) Moral rule or aspect.

I don't doubt your principles.

意味（4）

(physics) A rule or law of nature, or the basic idea on how the laws of nature are applied.

Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.

意味（5）

A fundamental essence, particularly one producing a given quality.

Cathartine is the bitter, purgative principle of senna.

意味（6）

A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause.

The soul of man is an active principle.

意味（7）

An original faculty or endowment.

those active principles whose direct and ultimate object is the communication either of enjoyment or suffering

意味（8）

Misspelling of principal.

意味（9）

(obsolete) A beginning.

Doubting sad end of principle unsound.