The phrase "acceptable principles" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing standards or guidelines that are deemed appropriate or satisfactory in a particular context.
Example: "The committee established a set of acceptable principles to guide the project's development."
Alternatives: "satisfactory standards" or "appropriate guidelines".
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.
They also noted that the sub-commission for water, environment and energy agreed to mutually recognise, as the role of their negotiations, the rightful allocations of the two sides in Jordan River and Yarmouk River waters and to fully respect and comply with the negotiated rightful allocations, in accordance with agreed acceptable principles with mutually acceptable quality.
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.
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.
There is equal unanimity that opportunists, for private gain, cannot be permitted to arm themselves with an acceptable principle, such as that of a right to work, a privilege to engage in interstate commerce, or a free press, and proceed to use it as an iron standard to smooth their path by crushing the living rights of others to privacy and repose.
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".
