Definition that contains general principle
- induction reasoning from detailed facts to general principles
- generalization reasoning from detailed facts to general principles
- deductive involving inferences from general principles
- generalisation reasoning from detailed facts to general principles
- second reading the second presentation of a bill in a legislature; to approve its general principles (Britain) or to discuss a committee's report and take a vote (US)
- artistic movement a group of artists who agree on general principles
- a priori involving deductive reasoning from a general principle to a necessary effect; not supported by fact
- inductive reasoning reasoning from detailed facts to general principles
- taxonomy (biology) study of the general principles of scientific classification
- scientific knowledge knowledge accumulated by systematic study and organized by general principles