Sentence examples for speculative principles from inspiring English sources

When Lord Castlereagh, running British foreign policy during the end of the Napoleonic period, and refusing the Burkean demand that he wage preventive war in Europe on behalf of toppled monarchs, remarked, "This Country cannot, and will not, act upon the abstract and speculative principles of Precaution," he was being more Burkean than Burke.

When Locke turns from speculative principles to the question of whether there are innate practical moral principles, many of the arguments against innate speculative principles continue to apply, but there are some additional considerations.

Practical principles, such as the Golden Rule, are not self-evident in the way such speculative principles as "What is, is" are.

The challenge, however, is to develop this science in such a way as to understand the facts of the human world without either reducing them to mere contingency or explaining their order by way of speculative principles of the sort generated by traditional metaphysics.

It is important to note, however, that while the early followers of Whitehead such as Hartshorne and Paul Weiss embraced the speculative principles of his philosophy, many present-day Whiteheadians are content to put the system's ontological concepts to descriptive use.

Arius's main rival was Athanasius of Alexandria, for whom the point of departure was not a philosophical-speculative principle but rather the reality of redemption, the certainty of salvation.

Thus, while the suggested mechanism is highly speculative, the principle is clear.

In the fourth chapter of Book I, Locke raises similar points about the ideas which compose both speculative and practical principles.

The verses of the Qur'an are categorized into three fields: "science of speculative theology", "ethical principles" and "rules of human conduct".

Speculative philosophy commences with principles that are accepted without recourse to experiment, whereas experimental philosophy begins with observation and experiment and only then proceeds to theory.

Although any tentative to answer this question remains highly speculative, there are in principle only two possible explanations: either the membranes in the pellets display a lower salt affinity or for some reason the DOPG/MO ratio gets altered in favor of MO during the last steps of pellet production.