We need some sort of principles to reason from.

Let us consider ‘my dog is asleep on the floor’ again. Frege thinks that this sentence can be analyzed in various different ways. Instead of treating it as expressing the application of __ is asleep on the floor to my dog, we can think of it as expressing the application of the concept
my dog is asleep on __
to the object
the floor
(see Frege 1919). Frege recognizes what is now a commonplace in the logical analysis of natural language. We can attribute more than one logical form to a single sentence. Let us call this the principle of multiple analyses. Frege does not claim that the principle always holds, but as we shall see, modern type theory does claim this.

The principle of least privilege holds that a process should only receive the permissions it needs.

It's the principle of the thing; I won't do business with someone I can't trust.

The Pauli Exclusion Principle prevents two fermions from occupying the same state.

The principle of the internal combustion engine

Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.

Many believe that life is the result of some vital principle.

Cathartine is the bitter, purgative principle of senna.

those active principles whose direct and ultimate object is the communication either of enjoyment or suffering

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