principle

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.

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

I don't doubt your principles.

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.

Cathartine is the bitter, purgative principle of senna.

The soul of man is an active principle.

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

Doubting sad end of principle unsound.