Thus he can identify an actuality as a primary attribute, allowing that possession of the attribute by the subject only occurs "for the most part," and still identify the first principle asserting this possession of the attribute as a necessary truth.
The Principle of Consciousness is not a tautology, yet anyone who reflects upon what is asserted by this principle will immediately recognize its truth and universal validity, inasmuch as it expresses what Reinhold called a "universally recognized fact of consciousness".
Truman was excoriated by the general's legions of worshipers, but most historians have praised him for asserting the principle of civilian authority over the military.
This was followed in 1736 by edicts for the establishment of schools in certain provinces, in 1763 by Frederick II the Great's regulation asserting the principle of compulsory school attendance, and in 1794 by a codification of Prussian law recognizing the principle of state supremacy in education.
And there's Amendment X (1791), for the avoidance of doubt, asserting the principle of subsidiarity that "powers not delegated to the United States by the...Constitution are reserved to the states...or to the people".
Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points, asserting the principle of self-determination, was one of many signs that the age of multiethnic empires, such as the Ottoman and the Austro-Hungarian, was giving way to an age of ethnic nation-states.
After all, Truman, with full support from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had simply asserted the principle of civilian control over the military.
The bill asserted the principle of the minimum wage in the fullest and clearest possible terms, subject to the provision of adequate safeguards against abuse.
In the Rayonist manifesto of 1913, he asserted the principle of the reduction of form in figure and landscape compositions into rays of reflected light.
