Librarians' assertion of the principle of confidentiality may seem trivial to some people compared with similar stands by, say, doctors or priests.
More than that, the finding was an assertion of the principle that politicians cannot entirely ignore either science or the rule of law.
Note also, that although the argument from routinisation undermines extensive and repeated use of informed consent in the implementation of the Shared Medicine Profile, it is wholly consistent with the assertion of the principle of respect for personal autonomy.
The assertion of that principle, at that time, was the word "fitly spoken" which has proven an "apple of gold" to us.
And they will be an assertion, albeit probably too weak, of the principle that rules apply in the digital world too.
Creditors are not calling for cuts in public wages and pension spending can be reduced in a variety of indirect ways, such as reducing the scope for early retirement.With so much to lose on both sides and little to gain (other than painful assertions of principle), a deal still appears the most likely outcome despite the fraught nature of the negotiations.
Interpreting Karl Marx as an egalitarian normative theorist is a tricky undertaking, however, in view of the fact that he tends to eschew explicit normative theorizing on moral principles and to regard assertions of moral principles as so much ideological dust thrust in the eyes of the workers by defenders of capitalism.
It is a rule of progressive politics that necessary and feasible reforms are often postponed because opponents master the details while supporters rely on passionate assertions of principle.
This is the standard form of the Principle of Recursion on N. The upshot is that this principle is equivalent to the assertion that (N, s) is an initial algebra of the functor Fx = x +1.
Since Łukasiewicz (1910), this ontological version of the principle has been recognized as distinct from, and for Aristotle arguably prior to, the logical formulation ("The opinion that opposite assertions are not simultaneously true is the firmest of all"—Met.
