principle
guiding rule or inevitable consequence of something, such as the laws observed in nature
Pareto principle
statistical principle about ratio of effects to causes
Equator Principles
Risk management framework
Actus purus
term employed in scholastic philosophy to express the absolute perfection of God
animal magnetism
purported force in living things
duty
commitment or obligation to someone or something or to perform an action on the behalf of
extensionality
logic principle that judges objects to be equal if they have the same external properties
principle
discovery, statement or rule being the foundation for other considerations, statements or activities
reciprocity
social norm of responding to a positive action with another positive action, rewarding kind actions
search neutrality
principle that search engines should have no editorial policies other than that their results be comprehensive, impartial and based solely on relevance
strong focusing
principle in accelerator physics
empirical risk minimization
in computer science, a way to determine theoretical bounds in machine learning
ignore all rules
Wikipedia rule to set aside other rules
Principle of normality
principle of solid mechanics
philosophical razor
principle or rule of thumb that allows one to eliminate unlikely explanations for a phenomenon
as-if rule
in programming language standards, the interpretive principle that allows compilers to apply any optimizing transformation to a program, as long as it doesn’t change the observable behavior of the program as specified in the standard
Everything is a file
defining feature of Unix, and its derivatives
fallibilism
philosophical principle that human beings could be wrong about their beliefs, expectations, or their understanding of the world
qi
active principle forming part of any living thing in traditional Chinese culture
anthropic principle
philosophical consideration that observations of the Universe must be compatible with the conscious and sapient life that observes it
office stability
a principle of the German civil service law
legal maxim
established principle of law
Hitchens' razor
Epistemological razor regarding the burden of proof
complementarity
quantum objects have complementary properties that cannot all be measured simultaneously
clinical equipoise
belief state when all of the available evidence about a new intervention does not show that it is more beneficial than an alternative and, equally, does not show that it is less beneficial than the alternative
Nitrogen rule
principle in mass spectrometry
blossom
functional for polynomials
encoding specificity principle
general principle that matching the encoding contexts of information at recall assists in the retrieval of episodic memories
finders, keepers
informal principle that the first finder of something unowned or abandoned may keep it
moral principle
ethic rule a person uses to guide
leaky abstraction
software abstraction that leaks details that it is supposed to abstract away
Goldilocks principle
the idea that something must fall between two extremes
isolationism
foreign policy isolating oneself from other countries
Three Non-Nuclear Principles
parliamentary resolutions that have guided the Japanese no-nuclear policy
Gresham's law
monetary principle on circulating currency; "bad money drives out good"
Born rule
in quantum mechanics, the rule that the probability of observing an eigenvalue is the square of the modulus of the inner product between the quantum state and the eigenstate corresponding to the eigenvalue
federal loyalty
principle
area rule
rule in physics, relating to an aircraft's drag at transonic or supersonic speed
law of thought
philosophical axiomatisation
package principles
way of organizing classes in larger systems to make them more organized and manageable
journalistic objectivity
principle in journalism
Rules of the Eurovision Song Contest
Rules and obligations used in the Eurovision Song Contest
equidistance principle
legal concept in maritime boundary claims
transcendental law of homogeneity
heuristic principle enunciated by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
unity of command
principle that subordinate members of a structure should all be responsible to a single commander
Biodiversity and human rights
intersection topic describing how biodiversity is a human rights issue