The phrase "acceptable principle" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing a guideline or standard that is considered satisfactory or permissible in a particular context.
Example: "The committee agreed that the proposed changes adhered to an acceptable principle of fairness and transparency."
Alternatives: "permissible standard" or "valid guideline".
And yet we would also seem to be using the acceptable principle of substitutivity of identicals for identicals salva veritate.
Presumably any acceptable principle will require that only current victims of past injustices have just claims to rectification payments and that they only have just claims against current beneficiaries of those past injustices.
In Aspects of Reason, Grice begins by considering the suggestion that reasoning consists in "the entertainment (and often acceptance) in thought or in speech of a set of initial ideas (propositions), together with a sequence of ideas each of which is derivable by an acceptable principle of inference from its predecessors in the set" (2001, 5).
And at that point, if the rich object to such further income distribution, well, their hypocrisy will be so obvious that they will have no politically acceptable principle on which to stand in opposition".
The relativist, in contrast, argues that there are many, equally acceptable principles for accepting theories, all on the basis of evidence available, but such theories could result in very different verdicts.
"Such personal attacks treat the court as though it were merely a political forum in which bargaining, compromise, and even intimidation are acceptable principles.
But the most that economic seers can do is apply broad, generally acceptable principles to current situations and try to go from there.
To count as a finitary consistency proof, the operation itself must be acceptable from the finitist standpoint, and the proofs required must use only finitarily acceptable principles.
It seeks to ensure that any muddles or inconsistencies in our unreasoned inclinations and passive prejudices are replaced by an explicitly formulated, consciously co-ordinated, adequately reasoned, and freely adopted system of acceptable principles.
On this basis one might indeed fear that the intuitions about feasibly computable functions codified by the Cobham-Edmonds thesis exhibit the same kind of instability as do intuitively acceptable principles about feasibly constructible numbers.
The ELSA network needs to demonstrate that it can provide more or less tangible benefits, show that it operates according to acceptable principles and spell out its main concepts in a way that is understandable to outsiders.
