Milo Minderbinder ’ s maxim “ What ’ s good for M & M Enterprises is good for the country ” alludes to former president of General Motors Charles Erwin Wilson ’ s statement before the Senate “ What ’ s good for General Motors is good for the country .” The question of “ Who promoted Major Major ?” alludes to Joseph McCarthy ’ s questioning of the promotion of Major Peress, an army dentist who refused to sign loyalty oaths.

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 first maxim of a man who loves liberty, should be never to grant to rulers an atom of power that is not most clearly and indispensably necessary for the safety and well being of society.

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.

As in other Nordic countries, the Swedish right to roam comes with an equal emphasis being placed upon the responsibility to look after the countryside ; the maxim is " do not disturb, do not destroy ".

Thus holding this maxim is irrational as it ends up being impossible to hold it.

In Der Zauberlehrling and in the story's iteration in the 1940 animated film Fantasia, it is generally presumed that the story embodies some maxim or moral, and that it is something along the lines of " don't meddle with things you don't understand " or offers a metaphor for modern society where youth and inexperience is enthroned, resulting in an increasingly out of control mess being made, and in need of ' our betters ' to return and take charge once more.

Some other examples of his bitter sarcasms are recorded by Diogenes ; one of which is worth quoting as a maxim in criticism: being asked by Aratus how to obtain the pure text of Homer, he replied, " If we could find the old copies, and not those with modern emendations.

It is the usual British maxim that the actions of a King in possession are valid, even when his title is unsound ; but there was also a law of the Kingdom of Ireland that the King of England is automatically King of Ireland-and William and Mary were crowned in England on 11 April 1689.

1991 ) that the Ninth Amendment was intended to vitiate the maxim of expressio unius est exclusio alterius according to which the express mention of one thing excludes all others:

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.

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

As referenced by CSI member Martin Gardner, a maxim regularly put into practice by the organization is H. L. Mencken's " one horse-laugh is worth a thousand syllogisms.

*“ The moral teaching of the higher spirits may be summed up, like that of Christ, in the gospel maxim, ‘ Do unto others as you would that others should do unto you ;’ that is to say, do good to all, and wrong no one.

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 ".

An essay on ' The School of Giorgione ' ( Fortnightly Review, 1877 ), added to the third edition ( 1888 ), contains Pater's much-quoted maxim " All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music " ( i. e. the arts seek to unify subject matter and form, and music is the only art in which subject and form are seemingly one ).

The speaker ’ s desire to fulfill two conflicting maxims results in his or her flouting one maxim to invoke the other.

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.

His best-known maxim, " Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent ", became one of Isaac Asimov's favorite sayings.

The precise meaning of universalizability is contentious, but the most common interpretation is that the categorical imperative asks whether the maxim of your action could become one that everyone could act upon in similar circumstances.

For instance, one can determine whether a maxim of lying to secure a loan is moral by attempting to universalize it and applying reason to the results.

The Fraternity's maxim is " Alma Mater First and Theta Chi for Alma Mater ," and refers to one of the founding ideals of the Fraternity: loyalty to one's college or university over the course of one's lifetime.

His maxim, " Luck, not wisdom, rules the affairs of men ," was adopted by Kundogius as the text of one of his essays.

In response, Unger argues that some structures are more inviting to change than others, and that one is mistaken to pessimistically believe in a universal maxim that all structures are unchangeable enemies to our transcendent spirits.

In English and American jurisprudence, there is a legal maxim ( albeit one sometimes honored in the breach ) that for every right, there is a remedy ; where there is no remedy, there is no right.

In choosing a maxim, one should assess the audience views and employ a fitting maxim ( Book 2. 21. 15-16 ).

If there is one constant in town-gown relations over the centuries, it can be summed up with the maxim, " Students will be students.

The maxim that " a pawn on the seventh is worth two on the fifth " makes sense from both Black's perspective as well as White's perspective.

This maxim operates where there are two or more competing equitable interests ; when two equities are equal the original interest ( i. e., the first in time ) will succeed.

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

According to the model, causal explanations follow two particular conversational maxims from Grice ’ s ( 1975 ) models of conversation — the manner maxim and the quantity maxim.

A famous maxim ( Epidemics I. 11 ) advises: " As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least to do no harm.

The post-Talmudic work Avot de-Rabbi Natan gives the following origin of the schism between Sadducees and Boethusians: Antigonus of Sokho having taught the maxim, " Be not like the servants who serve their masters for the sake of the wages, but be rather like those who serve without thought of receiving wages ", his two pupils, Zadok and Boethus, repeated this maxim to their pupils.

* 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.

" With a maxim such as this, it was easy for him to maintain that Elizabeth's — and his — brutal measures were political and not religious.

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 ".

It was believed, for example, that maggots could spontaneously appear in decaying meat ; Francesco Redi carried out experiments which disproved this notion and coined the maxim Omne vivum ex ovo (" every living thing comes from a living thing " — literally " from an egg "), Virchow ( and his predecessors ) extended this to state that the only source for a living cell was another living cell.

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.

Gondomar conceived his embassy as a sortie in enemy country, and took for his maxim aventurar la vida y osar morir — " risk your life and dare to die "; his opening challenge was his refusal to strike the colours of Spain at his warships ' entry to Portsmouth harbour, in which an appeal to the King averted an exchange of cannonfire that would have sunk the ambassador in his vessel.

Rather, Peirce's pragmatic maxim is the heart of his pragmatism as a method of experimentational mental reflection arriving at conceptions in terms of conceivable confirmatory and disconfirmatory circumstances — a method hospitable to the generation of explanatory hypotheses, and conducive to the employment and improvement of verification to test the truth of putative knowledge.

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.

Jarecki is an example of the maxim noscitur a sociis — a word is known by the company it keeps.