- What is the meaning of the principle of the thing?
The "principle of the thing" could also be using "thing" as a reference to the intangible situation as a whole: the writer stopped people from doing something due to some principle which applied to the situation The word "thing", in an intangible sense, is sometimes used vaguely or loosely by English speakers
- Its the principle of the matter. - WordReference Forums
It's the principle of the thing or It's a matter of principle are the common expressions You can also use on principle, which is more concise and, in my opinion, works better after conjunctions: I refused to pay the extra $1 on principle or I don't read that newspaper on principle This is not to be confused with in principle, which means in general Edit: Oh, I've just noticed this is an
- Thing - noun or pronoun - WordReference Forums
Thing is a noun It is a utility noun - it is an indefinite synonym for any noun: "What is that thing called?" (thing = object) "A funny thing happened on the way to the forum " (thing = incident) "The thing is, we cannot afford a yacht " (thing = principle objection ) "Things could be worse " (Things = circumstances)
- What does Applies to something in principle mean?
If you say that something is true, or applies, in principle, you are saying that provisionally based on what you know about it so far You agree in general but have not yet considered the details
- Although . . . . . still, yet, but | WordReference Forums
The difference seems to be that in the second thread "still" is used as an adverb, not as a conjunction, and so it reinforces the contrast implied by the "although" In the first thread they were using "yet" and "but" as conjunctions
- meaning - The use of Would have not been and Would not have been in . . .
Do they mean same thing? For example, On this principle, if Mr Lynch had decided to go on hunger strike, the police would not have been entitled to administer forcible feeding Across the nation are examples of incidents that were the incident not recorded, some police would have not been prosecuted for horrendous
- Actually, you can leverage [ actually ] | WordReference Forums
Hello, everyone Is the flow of this context awkward? In economics, there is a principle known as the sunk cost fallacy The idea is that when you are invested and have ownership in something, you overvalue that thing Actually, you can leverage this human tendency to your benefit
- word meaning - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
But note that in the programming context it's not uncommon to see it used to mean a software resource upon which some piece of software depends (i e - reversing the need provide relationship) In principle, dependence could also be used with that second sense - but as OED points out, all such usages are now either obsolete or archaic
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