So closely like hasty generalization that it cannot be clearly separated from it is faulty reasoning that arises from neglecting exceptions to a general principle.
Of the two former one is a general principle, the other an assertion of a particular case.
In inductive reasoning we put individual facts and cases together into a class on the basis of some definable similarity, and then infer from them a general principle.
In default of such an understanding, and as a general principle, prisoners of war shall be treated, as regards food and clothing, on the same footing as the troops of the Government who made them prisoners.
Ordinary Commerce As a general principle, subjects of a neutral state may carry on commerce in the time of war as in the time of peace.
Exemptions from Jurisdiction--General As a general principle, the sovereignty of a state within its boundaries is complete and exclusive.
This is a general principle of English parliamentary law, which is applied in almost all public bodies.
But this depends upon the same general principle, that the body can act collectively only on propositions laid before it by an individual, or a group of men acting together as an individual.
These circumstances are a deviation from my general principle; but have nevertheless a proper ground to be supported on.
Gentlemen ridicule the idea that the exercise of a pervading influence and a general principle should be limited by any particular number of years, or be confined within a fort.
The axiom does not accommodate itself to the type of Deductive Reasoning as contrasted with Induction—the application of a general principle to a special case.
As a general principle, Dolly DID know it, and WAS told so, very often.
General principle serving as the basis for its adoption.
It is a general principle that in leaping from a height of any extent, the soldier should avail himself of anything at hand to diminish the shock of the fall.
Compound ditto of Huyghens; advantages and disadvantages of these different combinations; general principle of catadioptrical instruments.
She said there was no truth in man and that the warmer he expressed himself, as a general principle, the falser and more treacherous he was.
In describing the source whence his ministers should expect their support, the Savior furnished a general principle, which has an obvious and powerful bearing on the subject of slavery.
It is but a particular form of a general principle, which, as just shown, presents many other forms, not only of the discriminate, but likewise of the indiscriminate kind.
I will now conclude by briefly summarizing these matters of general principle in the form of twelve sequent propositions.
A statement of its results will, therefore, afford no small data for deciding upon the general principle of gradualism!
In all sorts of criticism, whether it confines itself to the idioms of a single language, or rises to something like a general principle of taste, the Italian writers had a decided priority in order of time as well as of merit.
Hence he thinks that such men as Agrippa and Bruno kept only the general principle of Lully’s scheme, enlarging it by new contrivances of their own.
These will usually be in harmony; but as a general principle, the exercises are to be chosen with reference to the welfare of the child,--not of the community.
Historical men--world-famous individuals--are those in whose aims such a general principle lies.
The special interest of passion is thus inseparable from the active development of a general principle; for it is from the special and determinate, and from its negation, that the universal results.
These contingencies realize themselves in history; they involve a general principleof a different order from that on which depends the permanence of a people or a State.
The next two steps are directed toward getting a general principleor conception.
One pupil may already have some inkling--probably erroneous--of a general principle.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "general principle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
