Sentence examples for be principles of from inspiring English sources

Returning now to the claim that it is possible that a given table not be blue and that it could have been black, we need to keep in mind (for example) that on Descartes' view colors are not in objects in the way that we normally imagine them to be (Principles of Philosophy I:68, AT 8A 33, CSM 1 217).

Specifically, he argues that if considerations of justice plus other values and some empirical facts suggest that we should adopt certain rules to regulate our institutions, those rules cannot be principles of justice, since other considerations than justice contribute to our thinking that we should adopt them.

There are principles of common decency which do the same.

"They are principles of right reason and natural law".

These are principles of design.

The principles derived from them were principles of "how principles were established".

Categories specify the fundamental determinations of being; they are principles of being (on principles see Section 4.1 below).

Yet, they are principles of life and of movement of bodies (Elem. Theol. § 188).

Public standards are principles of reasoning and rules of evidence that all citizens could reasonably endorse.

And, when modelled in this way, there are principles of rationality that apply to these agents.

These are principles of nature.