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divine law
a law that is believed to come directly from God
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principle
a basic truth or law or assumption
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sound law
a law describing sound changes in the history of a language
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dictate
a guiding principle
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basic principle, basics, bedrock, fundamental principle, fundamentals
principles from which other truths can be derived
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logic
the principles that guide reasoning within a given field or situation
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pleasure principle, pleasure-pain principle, pleasure-unpleasure principle
(psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality
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reality principle
(psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the ego; the principle that as a child grows it becomes aware of the real environment and the need to accommodate to it
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insurrectionism
the principle of revolt against constituted authority
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conservation
(physics) the maintenance of a certain quantities unchanged during chemical reactions or physical transformations
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Grimm's law
a sound law relating German consonants and consonants in other Indo-European languages
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Verner's law
a qualification of Grimm's law
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Tao
the ultimate principle of the universe
