However, now that Senator John Ensign's extramarital love life and his efforts to cover up his affair with staffer Cynthia Hampton have once again become front page news, any future investigation into this romantic caper may depend upon the boundaries of an essential, albeit rather mundane, principle of physician-patients relations: confidentiality.
In the future, the authors argue, media moguls should rededicate themselves to seemingly mundane guiding principles.
In much the same way, mastering a few basic economic principles can cast the mundane details of ordinary existence in a sharp new light.
Let's break away from the mundane; let's reclaim a key principle of club culture; let's restore the dynamic to a time when the track was God and the DJ was messenger.
And there are occasions when exalted principles are less valuable than mundane political skills.
His biographer Walter Isaacson points out that Einstein's success thus far had "been based on his special talent for sniffing out the underlying physical principles of nature", leaving to others the more mundane task of providing the best mathematical expression.
It has become routine for celebrities to broadcast banal information and fill Instagram with the "moments" that constitute their day, the tacit principle being that, once you are important enough, nothing is mundane.
If, like lottery propositions, lotteryesque propositions are not easily known, they increase the pressure on the closure principle, since they are entailed by a wide range of mundane propositions which become unknowable, given closure.
Conversely, quantitative theoretical predictions sometimes show that general mathematical and physical laws are incompatible with otherwise mundane observations, forcing us to reconsider our assumptions and leading us to discover new principles.
Finally, he relented after adopting the principle of karumi or "lightness", a semi-Buddhist philosophy of greeting the mundane world rather than separating himself from it.
