Sentence examples for accept a principle from inspiring English sources

He writes: "I have always had a rather extreme attitude to this question of sharing the riches of the world, and have found it hard to accept a principle which lets some live lavishly while others starve".

In this discussion, general reasons for accepting or refusing to accept a principle as a basic axiom came to the surface.

In order to explain why we ought to accept a principle of public reason or public justification, we cannot simply say it ought to be accepted because the principle itself can be publicly justified.

In doing so we determine our action freely and we accept a principle determined by pure reason.

He replied that "accepting a principle" might lead to a "pragmatic cost" – referring to the prospect of the US cutting on the amount of intelligence it passes to Britain.

Suppose, for example, that we accept a default principle according to which the fact that an agent's culture demands something is sometimes a reason to do it.

Under considerable pressure, the federal government accepted a restricted principle of entry by competitive open examination, and in 1883 the U.S. Civil Service Commission was established to control entry to office in the federal service.

Note that any view that accepts a nonduplication principle for some sort of entity is ipso facto anti-haecceitist.

At least some of Heyd's language suggests that he accepts a certain principle that, to be sure, implies intuition (2) but also goes well beyond intuition (2).

As such it provides a merely negative condition for accepting a moral principle; the problem is that it does not provide a positive criterion to distinguish between the many maxims that satisfy this condition.

Willamette Industries said late yesterday that it had agreed in principle to accept a sweetened $6.1 billion cash offer from the Weyerhaeuser Company.