{"id":8829,"date":"2019-05-22T16:11:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/principle\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:11:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:11:58","slug":"principle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/principle\/","title":{"rendered":"Principle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fundamental doctrine, maxim or truth that is accepted as such by a particular scientific community (e.g., Archimedes principle,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/psycnet.apa.org\/record\/1950-00412-000\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/psycnet.apa.org\/record\/1950-00412-000?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">principle of least effort&nbsp;<\/a>in psychology). &nbsp;Certainly, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologynoteshq.com\/werners-orthogenetic-theory\/\" data-editable-link=\"https:\/\/www.psychologynoteshq.com\/werners-orthogenetic-theory\/?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">orthogenetic principle<\/a>&nbsp;of Heinz Werner (1890-1964) would not comply with a principle under this definition. &nbsp;While there are distinctions to be drawn between principles, canons, rules and laws, a principle is different in that it stems directly from a paradigm or world view, and its uniformity and validity are beyond doubt. &nbsp;Principles, therefore, are very rarely challenged and when they are it may give rise to a paradigm shift.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"induction_-philosophy-\">Induction (philosophy)<\/a>, <a href=\"isomorphism\">Isomorphism<\/a>, <a href=\"law\">Law<\/a>, <a href=\"rule\">Rule<\/a>, <a href=\"organism-environment_mutualism\">Organism-environment mutualism<\/a>, <a href=\"orthogenetic_principle\">Orthogenetic principle<\/a>, <a href=\"paradigm\">Paradigm<\/a>, <a href=\"paradigm_shift\">Paradigm shift<\/a>, <a href=\"parameter_-linguistics-\">Parameter (linguistics)<\/a>, <a href=\"principle_of_the_integration_and_individuation_of_\">Principle of the integration and individuation of behavior<\/a>, Theory <\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fundamental doctrine, maxim or truth that is accepted as such by a particular scientific community (e.g., Archimedes principle,&nbsp;principle of least effort&nbsp;in psychology). &nbsp;Certainly, the&nbsp;orthogenetic principle&nbsp;of Heinz Werner (1890-1964) would not comply with a principle under this definition. &nbsp;While there are distinctions to be drawn between principles, canons, rules and laws, a principle is different &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/principle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Principle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}