English Dictionary

principle

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈpɹɪnsɪpəl/

名詞

別表記 誤綴り 廃用

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

日本語の意味

基本的な信念または指針 / 問題解決の際に解答案を選ぶための原則 / （複数形の場合）道徳的な規範や倫理の側面

She refused to compromise her principle, even when it cost her the promotion.

彼女は昇進がかかっていても、自分の信念を曲げることを拒んだ。

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 (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.

principles （ plural ）