The phrase "a principled basis for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the foundation or reasoning behind a particular decision, action, or belief that is guided by principles or ethics.
Example: "The committee established a principled basis for their decision to implement new policies that promote sustainability."
Alternatives: "an ethical foundation for" or "a moral rationale for".
Under this specification, optimum behaviour emerges in agents that conform to a free-energy principle, which provides a principled basis for understanding both action and perception [9], [10].
Or is there a principled basis for selective concern about Venezuela?
The findings suggest that the Animation Processing Model provides a principled basis for designing more effective animation support.
In 2006, however, the pro-business tenor of the S.E.C. under President George W. Bush found expression in written guidelines widely seen as intended to provide a principled basis for limiting fines paid by public companies.
On the other hand, I am unable to identify a principled basis for differentiating between a transfer from the general prison population to solitary confinement and a transfer involving equally disparate conditions between one physical facility and another.
These invariant measurements can be used to index a library of object models for recognition and provide a principled basis for the other stages of the recognition process such as feature grouping and hypothesis verification.
That the United States, as the only superpower, needs to provide global military leadership seems irrefutable, yet we have failed to articulate any principled basis for doing so.
"You've got to just develop as thick a skin as you can, understand that some people will disagree with you on a principled basis but other people will disagree with you for purely political and partisan reasons," he said.
One problem with strategies of this nature is that there fails to be a principled basis (in the terminology of Devitt and Sterelny (1999)) for determining what the content of these descriptions is to be.
"And while I did not always agree with Don, he always took positions in a tax controversy on a principled basis," Mr. Cohen said.
As reported by M. D. Lee in [ 38], although there are at least two variants [ 39, 40] of the multidimensional scaling that attempt to determine automatically the number of dimensions of the spatial representation they derive, there is not a rigorous and principled basis for this determination.
