The phrase "accepting this principle" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the acknowledgment or agreement with a specific idea or concept in a formal or academic context.
Example: "In order to move forward with the project, we must first consider the implications of accepting this principle."
Alternatives: "embracing this concept" or "acknowledging this idea."
Although Aristotle follows Plato in accepting this principle, he rejects Plato's further claim that a single science of ruling is appropriate for all (see Plato Statesman 258e-259c.
Accepting this principle would have "devastating consequences": namely, that "government could forbid the graphic or visceral or emotionally charged expression of any opinion that might reasonably offend a disadvantaged group.
And the argument for accepting this principle would be that the relatively uncontroversial cases of a posteriori necessary connections are in fact cases in which one can argue a priori from facts about the microstructure to the manifest facts.
The Roman Catholic Church accepts this principle by introducing adults (sponsors, godparents), who make the decision for the infant at the commission of the parents and are given the responsibility of ensuring the child's Christian upbringing.
Indian philosophers who accept this principle cite supportive instances such as the knife that cannot cut itself and the finger-tip that cannot touch itself.
One reason to accept this principle is that it helps to eliminate information that is conveyed by an utterance but not part of what is said by the sentence uttered.
The theorist who thinks that clouds are just fusions of water droplets cannot accept this principle, or they will conclude that every oi is a cloud, since for them each oi is of the right category.
Desire-based accounts of well-being (see, e.g., Hare 1981) standardly accept this principle, for what is desired may occur without one's awareness of its occurrence and without affecting one's experience.
