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Definition of Principles
1. principle [n] - See also: principle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Principles
Literary usage of Principles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (1855)
"I have here in view merely the principles of the pure understanding, ...
Accordingly, I have named these principles rather with reference to their ..."
2. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1894)
"I there are in the understanding certain innate principles ; some ... It would
be a 1 Locke does not name the ' men ' of' innate principles' whose ' opinion ..."
3. An Introduction to Celestial Mechanics by Forest Ray Moulton (1914)
"INTRODUCTION TO CELESTIAL MECHANICS CHAPTER I. FUNDAMENTAL principles AND
DEFINITIONS.. Elements and Laws. The problems of every science are expressible in ..."
4. An Introduction to Celestial Mechanics by Forest Ray Moulton (1914)
"INTRODUCTION TO CELESTIAL MECHANICS CHAPTER I. FUNDAMENTAL principles AND
DEFINITIONS.. Elements and Laws. The problems of every science are expressible in ..."
5. The International Geography by Hugh Robert Mill (1908)
"The International Geography PART I principles OF GEOGRAPHY CHAPTER ... The first
deals with the principles of Geography and their applications in the most ..."
6. The International Geography by Hugh Robert Mill (1915)
"The International Geography PART I principles OF GEOGRAPHY CHAPTER I ... The first
deals with the principles of Geography and their applications in the most ..."
7. Typical Forms and Special Ends in Creation by James McCosh, George Dickie (1857)
"I. principles WHICH SEEM TO RUN THROUGH THE STRUCTURE OF THE COSMOS. ... These two
principles are exhibited in not a few inorganic objects, and they meet in ..."
8. On War by Carl von Clausewitz, James John Graham, Frederic Natusch Maude (1908)
"GENERAL principles (1) There are three principal objects in carrying on War: (a)
To conquer and destroy the enemy's armed force. ..."