Each system, if it is truly such, will have a principle from which deductions are made, and will be able to be reconciled, despite accidental differences, with every other system sharing the same principle.
And, it's not a principle from which he will waver, or toss away due to politics.
At one extreme is the idea that we can apprehend a priori a general principle from which we can derive particular moral claims using non-moral facts as minor premises.
This unbiased 'ideal observer', when presented with an unfamiliar situation, would be able to immediately scan all potential consequences of all possible actions in order to frame a universal principle from which he could decide an appropriate action for the situation.
While minimisation of dissipation often holds in real physical systems, it is not in general a fundamental principle from which to deduce dynamical processes.
But then Bosanquet adds that "every verified result is pro tanto a confirmation of any principles from which it is deducible" (ibid).. Inference, then, is neither deductive (i.e., from general principles) nor inductive (e.g., from instances or sense data, but "systematic"—it proceeds from within a whole or a system.
While this might be a modest contribution in the wider context, it offers a bridgehead of principle from which progress can be made.
He actually has a position of principle from which he won't budge.He has a principle, based on his moral beliefs, that guides the political decisions he makes.
Liszt also invented the symphonic poem for orchestra and the method of "transformation of themes," by which one or two themes in different forms can provide the basis for an entire work a principle from which Wagner derived his system of so-called leitmotifs in his operas.
Lessing's argument in Laocoön supports the contrary thesis that the distinct arts have distinct aims and methods, and that each should be understood on its own terms, not in terms of an abstract general principle from which all arts are to be deduced.
If the validity of a philosophical proposition is determined by its systematic, logical connection to other propositions, then what determines the truth of the first principle, from which the system as a whole is generated or derived?
