Sentence examples for the principle from which from inspiring English sources

For, unless you perfectly understand the principle from which anyone acts, how should you know if he acts ill?

Against the first illustration it may be retorted that the source of the warmth does already contain warmth, not by an infusion but as an essential phase of its nature, so that, if the analogy is to hold, the argument would make Virtue something communicated to the Soul but an essential constituent of the Principle from which the Soul attaining Likeness absorbs it.

Others (for example, Hill 1993, Frankena 1986, Cranor 1975) argue that while respect for persons is surely a very important moral consideration, it cannot be the principle from which the rest of morality is deduced.

Just as in Descartes' model of science, where knowledge of all particulars depends on prior knowledge of the principle from which the particulars are deduced, so also in the aesthetics of French classicism, the demand is for systematization under a single, universal principle.

Our approach is conceptual and rhetorical, with focus on the principles from which the rules of evidence arise rather than upon the rules themselves.

The fourth book is concerned with those things that are known only through revelation, in which revelation offers the principles from which conclusions are drawn.

For example, Quine accepts the theorem if and only if it is part of the best systematisation of science (which it is assuming that the principles from which it is deduced and the logic by which it is deduced from those principles are).

It's not that he hates the people running the government, but he believes government has invalidated itself by betraying the principles from which it was founded.

If the validity of a philosophical proposition is determined by its systematic, logical connection to other propositions, then what determines the truth of the first principle, from which the system as a whole is generated or derived?

In it he invokes the Second Law as the First Principle from which the many secondary correlates of aging evolve.

Moreover he employs this property as the common principle from which the seven species of quantity can be derived (EP, ch. de quantitate, fol. 30ra).