" Putting words in the dead sophist's mouth, Socrates declares that Protagoras asserts with his maxim that all things are in motion and whatever seems to be the case, is the case for the perceiver, whether the individual or the state.

The burden of proof is often associated with the Latin maxim semper necessitas probandi incumbit ei qui agit, the best translation of which seems to be: " the necessity of proof always lies with the person who lays charges.

:"... ll for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.

The Kentucky Court of Appeal in Edwards v Sims ( 1929 ) 24 SW 2d 619 seems to affirm the maxim without qualification, whereas the New South Wales Supreme Court in Australia seemed more reluctant to do so in Di Napoli v New Beach Apartments ( 2004 ) Aust Torts Reports 81-728.

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 ".

The maxim is necessarily subordinate to positive principles and cannot be applied either to subvert established rules of law or to give the courts a jurisdiction hitherto unknown, and it is only in a general not in a literal sense that maxim has force.

The general legal maxim de minimis non curat lex has no place in the field of documentary credits.

It contains the famous maxim that purity of intention may be a justification of actions which are in themselves contrary to the moral code and to human laws ; and its general tendency is to find excuses for human frailties.

Some argue that Occam's razor is not an inference-driven model, but a heuristic maxim for choosing among other models and instead underlies induction.

Whether one chooses to call it " pragmatism " or " pragmaticism "— and Peirce himself was not always consistent about it even after the notorious renaming — his conception of pragmatic philosophy is based on one or another version of the so-called " pragmatic maxim ".

The Maxim ( philosophy ) | maxim of the " Golden Rule " is exemplified in many Christian stories, such as the Parable of the Good Samaritan, which are unadorned replications of the Jew ish Torah: " Love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.

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.

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 phrase " In essentials, unity ; in non-essentials, liberty ; in all things, charity " has also become a maxim among Methodists, who have always maintained a great diversity of opinion on many matters within the Church.

" This maxim has become one of the most widely recognized slogans in advertising history.

This maxim means that when individuals are required, by their agreements or by law, to perform some act of legal significance, Equity will regard that act as having been done as it ought to have been done, even before it has actually happened.

This maxim is often displaced by statutory limitations, but even where a limitation period has not yet run, equity may apply the doctrine of " laches ," an equitable term used to describe delay sufficient to defeat an equitable claim.

Kember has articulated the maxim: " One chord best, two chords cool, three chords okay, four chords average ".

In the book, he maintains his maxim " that there is nothing in the intellect which has not been in the senses " ( nihil est in intellectu quod non prius fuerit in sensu ), but he contends that the imaginative faculty ( phantasia ) is the counterpart of sense, because it involves material images, and therefore is intrinsically material, and that it is essentially the same both in men and brutes.

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 ").

Bullock's Guardian obituary commented that " Bullock's famous maxim ' Hitler was jobbed into power by backstairs intrigue ' has stood the test of time.

Among the sixteen fables included, some four derive from La Fontaine-the Heron, the Lion and the Mouse, the Dove and the Ant, the Sick Lion ,-a fifth borrows a moral from another of his but alters the details, and a sixth has as apologue a maxim of Antoine de La Rochefoucauld.

The maxim or its equivalent has been adopted by many civil law systems, including Brazil, Italy, Philippines, Poland, Spain, and France.

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

Profoundly influenced by his experience fighting in the American Civil War, Holmes helped move American legal thinking away from formalism and towards legal realism, as summed up in his maxim: " The life of the law has not been logic ; it has been experience.

One exception is a short poem which has become something of a popular maxim in Russia:

The maxim, or aphorism, " know thyself " has had a variety of meanings attributed to it in literature.

In Plato's Phaedrus, Socrates uses the maxim ' know thyself ' as his explanation to Phaedrus for why he has no time for mythology or other far flung topics.

For example: Answering It's raining to someone who has suggested playing a game of tennis only disrespects the maxim of relation on the surface, the reasoning behind this ' fragment ' sentence is normally clear to the interlocutor ( the maxim is just " flouted ").

These are customarily placed under the rubric of Ockham's razor, named after the 14th century Franciscan friar William of Ockham, who is credited with many different expressions of the maxim, not all of which have yet been found among his extant works.

Disapproval of what he viewed as specifically Romanian traits had been present in his works (" In any maxim, in any proverb, in any reflection, our people expresses the same shyness in front of life, the same hesitation and resignation ... [...] Everyday Romanian are dumbfounding.

The Wealth of Nations was first mentioned in Parliament by the Whig leader Charles James Fox on 11 November 1783: " There was a maxim laid down in an excellent book upon the Wealth of Nations which had been ridiculed for its simplicity, but which was indisputable as to its truth.

Indeed this must have been his maxim.

The maxim " cuius est solum, eius est usque ad coelum et ad infernos " ( whoever owns the land owns it all the way to the heavens and to hell ) is said to apply, however that has been limited by practical considerations.

The translator Arthur Waley noted that, " A certain idealization of the ' noble savage ' is to be found fairly often in early Chinese literature ", citing the Zuozhuan maxim, " When the Emperor no longer functions, learning must be sought among the ' Four Barbarians ,' north, west, east, and south.

The following is a list of the maxims found in Schlock Mercenary, ordered by maxim number.

On that basis, applying the legal maxim of res ipsa loquitur, the defendants were found negligent.

Hempel rejected this as a solution to the paradox, insisting that the proposition ' c is a raven and is black ' must be considered " by itself and without reference to any other information ", and pointing out that it "... was emphasized in section 5. 2 ( b ) of my article in Mind ... that the very appearance of paradoxicality in cases like that of the white shoe results in part from a failure to observe this maxim.

She makes her farewell, repeating their aunt's maxim to Harriet that ' whenever the matrimonial alliance is broke, and war declared between husband and wife, she can hardly make a disadvantageous peace for herself on any conditions ' but Mrs Fitzpatrick contemptuously dismisses this advice.

A moral maxim must have universality, which is to say that it must be disconnected from the particular physical details surrounding the proposition, and could be applied to any rational being.

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.

In defending the pretext for invasion after the fact, Dalhousie quoted the maxim of Lord Wellesley that any insult offered to the British flag at the mouth of the Ganges should be resented as promptly and fully as an insult offered at the mouth of the Thames.

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.

* Proportionality ( political maxim ), A maxim which states that any layer of government should not take any action that exceeds that which is necessary to achieve the objective of government

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 ).

The phrase " demise of the crown " is used in English law to signify the immediate transfer of the sovereignty, with all its attributes and prerogatives, to the successor without any interregnum in accordance with the maxim " the Crown never dies ".

He applied this maxim to his administration, which would be consumed by the machinations of the parliament at large, the propensity of which was to delay or hinder the government under any pretense, including the most trivial claim of a minor deputy.

It encompassed the courage to dissent expressed in the maxim " The greatest jihad is to utter a word of truth in the presence of a tyrannical ruler " ( a hadith reported by Abu Sa ' id al-Khudri ) as well as any productive activity that Muslims undertook, on their own initiative, to improve the well-being of the Islamic community.