This clergyman should have referred to Shakespeare's dictum: `` So-so is a good, very good, very excellent maxim.

Over time, these canons were supplemented with decretals of the Bishops of Rome, which were responses to doubts or problems according to the maxim, " Roma locuta est, causa finita est " (" Rome has spoken, case is closed ").

This rule does not usually apply to intentional torts ( for example, deceit ), and also has stunted applicability to the quantum in negligence where the maxim Intended consequences are never too remote applies ' never ' is inaccurate here but resorts to unforeseeable direct and natural consequences of an act.

The essence of subsidiarity is concisely inherent in the Chinese maxim ' Give someone a fish and you feed him for a day ; teach the person to fish and you feed him for a lifetime '.

* John D. Caputo attempts to explain deconstruction in a nutshell by stating that: " Whenever deconstruction finds a nutshell — a secure axiom or a pithy maxim — the very idea is to crack it open and disturb this tranquility.

A fable is a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized ( given human qualities such as verbal communication ), and that illustrates or leads to an interpretation of a moral lesson ( a " moral "), which may at the end be added explicitly in a pithy maxim.

The Golden Rule or ethic of reciprocity is a maxim, ethical code, or morality

The maxim in vivo veritas (" in a living thing is truth ") used to describe this type of testing is a play on words from in vino veritas, in wine is truth.

This view is frequently summarised by the maxim an unjust law is not a true law, lex iniusta non est lex, in which ' unjust ' is defined as contrary to natural law.

Natural law is sometimes identified with the maxim that " an unjust law is no law at all ", but as John Finnis, the most important of modern natural lawyers has argued, this maxim is a poor guide to the classical Thomist position.

The principle can be traced to a maxim which furnished a text of the Pandects of Justinian: in their Latin version, " Rex solutus est a legibus ", or " The king is released from the laws.

The conception that in religious matters anyone, however ignorant, can judge for himself, is the direct denial of the old Jewish maxim, ‘ The ignorant cannot be pious ’ ( Avot 2: 5 )… The majority vote of a Board of Directors of a synagogue is, after all, a negligible quantity when it is in opposition to the vote of historical Judaism with its myriad of Saints and thousands of Sages … The sorting, distributing, selecting, harmonizing and completing can only be done by experienced hands.

Substances in the molten state generally have reduced viscosity with elevated temperature ; an exception to this maxim is the element sulfur, whose viscosity increases with higher temperatures in its molten state.

" No crime, no punishment without a previous penal law ") is a basic maxim in continental European legal thinking.

This maxim, as interpreted by Bertrand Russell, states that if one can explain a phenomenon without assuming this or that hypothetical entity, there is no ground for assuming it, i. e. that one should always opt for an explanation in terms of the fewest possible causes, factors, or variables.

A proverb that describes a basic rule of conduct may also be known as a maxim.

Upon the generation of an explanation ( which he came to regard as instinctively guided ), the pragmatic maxim gives the necessary and sufficient logical rule to abduction in general.

An adage that describes a general rule of conduct is a " maxim ".

In establishing the a priori rational basis for morality, Kant uses the notion of a maxim — a formulation of the subjective principle of volition or, in other words, a rule followed in any intentional act.

Always act on a maxim which you can will to become a universal law of Nature ", to seek pain ( evil ) rather than pleasure ( good ) would break this first rule.

# Focus on quantity: This rule is a means of enhancing divergent production, aiming to facilitate problem solving through the maxim quantity breeds quality.

Several U. S. states, including California, Georgia, and Texas impose a " tender " condition precedent upon borrowers seeking to challenge a wrongful foreclosure, which is rooted in the maxim of equity that " he who seeks equity must first do equity ," as well as the common law rule that the party seeking rescission of a contract must first return all benefits received under the contract.

A policy is frequently stated in the form of a piece of advice called a heuristic, a maxim, a norm, a rule, a slogan, and so on.

A dicto simpliciter ( sweeping generalization ) ( Latin: " from a maxim without qualification ", meaning " from a universal rule ") or ad dictum simpliciter ( Latin: " to a maxim without qualification ", meaning " to a universal rule ") are Latin phrases for a type of informal fallacy of presumption.

The primary purpose of the Council was to prepare a new constitution for Germany, thereby drawing lessons from the failure of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Nazism, in order to re-establish a federal state based upon a stable democracy, welfare and the Rechtsstaat ( rule of law ) maxim.

His maxim was " There is no rule save the Gospel of Christ "; as this was the basis of all rules, to practise its morality was to fulfil all the duties of a good religious.

# the subjective content of the maxim is inconsistent with the will making one's rational autonomy an object of respect.

Thus, we cannot will that our subjective maxim of lying be universalised without self-contradiction: if everyone were to behave thus, such behaviour would not work.

His principle of life he expressed in the maxim,

The words originate from the phrasing of the principle in the Latin maxim Stare decisis et non quieta movere: " to stand by decisions and not disturb the undisturbed.

This principle is known as Kerckhoffs ' principle — " only secrecy of the key provides security ", or, reformulated as Shannon's maxim, " the enemy knows the system ".

By putting all these ideas together on his return from the Paris family holiday, the Christmas Cracker was born complete with a surprise novelty gift, a trinket, a tissue paper hat, a snap to make a bang when pulled apart and a piece of paper with a joke or motto-a maxim of appropriate character to express a principle or ideal suited to the occasion.

But even though it is possible that a universal law of nature could subsist in accordance with that maxim, still it is impossible to will that such a principle should hold everywhere as a law of nature.

This maxim, however dangerous in a trustee of the public wealth, was balanced by a principle of humanity and justice, which taught him to abhor, as of the basest alloy, the gold that was extracted from the tears of the people.

In creating its laws and dealing out sanctions, the school meeting generally applies A. S. Neill's maxim " Freedom not Licence " ( he wrote a book of the same name ); the principle that you can do as you please, so long as it doesn't cause harm to others.

Significant changes introduced into the 1968 document included Article 6, which committed the state to adhere to the " principles of socialist internationalism " and to devote special attention to its " fraternal ties " with the Soviet Union ; Article 9, which based the national economy on the " socialist ownership of the means of production "; Article 20, which under pressure from the churches granted freedom of conscience and belief ; Article 21, which maintained that the " basic rights " of citizenship were inseparably linked with " corresponding obligations "; and Article 47, which declared that the principle of " democratic centralism " is the authoritative maxim for the construction of the socialist state.

The principle behind the choice of word roots of Dutton Speedwords is the maxim that frequently used words should be shorter than seldom-used words in order to speed up communication ( see information theory ).

If it is, then the fourth step is asking oneself " whether would will the maxim to be a principle in this world ".

Non-maleficence, which is derived from the maxim, is one of the principal precepts of medical ethics that all medical students are taught in medical school and is a fundamental principle for emergency medical services around the world.

The principle has been paraphrased into the maxim " complete competitors cannot coexist ".

For Kant, a principle can be either a mere maxim if it is based on the agent's desires or a law if it applies universally.

All actions are performed in accordance with some underlying maxim or principle, which are deeply different from each other ; it is according to this that the moral worth of any action is judged.

The principle of proportionality is a political maxim which states that no layer of government should take any action that exceeds that which is necessary to achieve the objective of government ( Regardless of intent of objective ).

* Oxonica Energy Ltd v Neuftec Ltd ( 2008 ) EWHC 2127 ( Pat ), items 88-93 ( example where the contra proferentem principle was " not adequate enough to supply the answer to the case ", with a discussion of the origin of the maxim )

The principle of postliminium, as a part of public international law, is a specific version of the maxim ex injuria jus non oritur, providing for the invalidity of all illegitimate acts that an occupant may have performed on a given territory after its recapture by the legitimate sovereign.

“ From the moment that Monroe adopted as his guiding principle the maxim that he was head of a nation, not the leader of a party, he repudiated for all practical purposes the party unity ” that would have served to establish his policies.

This legal maxim was first enunciated by William Blackstone: " It is a settled and invariable principle in the laws of England, that every right when with-held must have a remedy, and every injury its proper redress.

This is illustrated by the old saying " When you see hoof prints, look for horses, not zebras ", or to use another maxim, use the KISS principle.

The principle underlying the maxim is that each question should elicit a factual answer — facts necessary to include for a report to be considered complete.

The substitution principle in sustainability is the maxim that processes, services and products should, wherever possible, be replaced with alternatives which have a lower impact on the environment.