Sentences with phrase «axiomatic principles»

One of the most axiomatic principles of investing is the relationship between risk and reward.

I am terrified that the axiomatic principles that my life is founded on are actually a collection of man - made tennets of morality amalgamated over thousands of years of trials and tribulations within formative civilized society.»

To follow the deductive method properly one must begin with axiomatic principles and then proceed in a rigorous manner in unfolding the consequences and applications of those principles.

That rule rests on the axiomatic principle that a lawyer has a fiduciary duty and professional responsibility to safeguard client funds, and requires lawyers to hold client funds separate from the lawyer's own funds.

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But to this the sufficient reply is that although it is clear that Whitehead is not proceeding deductively, his setting out a definite statement of his first principles at the outset of his system indicates that he held the axiomatic method to he an ideal form in which one should strive to organize thought into a system.

In order to fully understand the axiomatic pattern that issues from this primary fact, it is best to begin with Bergson's two metabiological principles: matter and the Élan Vital.

While the principle of «innocent until proven guilty,» also known as the «presumption of innocence,» isn't explicitly mentioned in the United States Constitution (though it is part of the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, a key document of the French Revolution), it is long considered one the most fundamental principles of the American justice system.In 1895, the U.S. Supreme Court declared in Coffin v. United States that «the principle that there is a presumption of innocence in favor of the accused is the undoubted law, axiomatic and elementary, and its enforcement lies at the foundation of the administration of our criminal law.»

In The Closing of the American Mind, which appeared in 1987, Alan Bloom wrote that among young people «openness» had ascended to the status of supreme moral principle, just as «relativism» had become axiomatic in philosophy.

This undermines an axiomatic legal principle: that a criminal offence can not be punished with a heavier penalty than existed at the time of commission.