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Formal principle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (136 words) |
 | In Christian theology, a formal principle is the authority which forms or shapes the doctrinal system of a religion, religious movement or tradition or a religious body or organization. |
| Formal principles tend to be texts or revered leaders of the religion or tradition. |
| If the formal principle is properly identified, a scholar will know where to look to understand the teachings of a religion. |
| Constructing the Principles (1776 words) |
| The principle of relativity, according to which the laws of physical phenomena must be the same for a stationary observer as for an observer carried along in a uniform motion of translation… The principle of the conservation of mass… The principle of least action. |
| The application of these five or six general principles to the different physical phenomena is sufficient for our learning of them all that we could reasonably hope to know of them… These principles are results of experiments boldly generalized; but they seem to derive from their very generality a high degree of certainty. |
| The conservation principles are explicitly assumed only for elementary molecules in statistical thermodynamics, and then they are inferred for high-level aggregates like a volume of gas. In contrast, the principle theory simply observes the conservation of energy at the level of gases, and adopts it as a postulate. |
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