Frequently Invoked Principles

Principles worth noting

Conceptuality

  • Conceptual congruence:
    • Salience: salient, relevant, germane (pithy?)
    • Constitutional: essential, crucial, central, elementary, fundamental, foundational
    • Integral: coherent, congruent, aligned
    • Conceptual congruence with categorical difference:
      • Euphemism
      • Idiom, colloquialism, jargon
      • Simile, metaphor
  • Conceptual distinction:
    • Divergence: divergent, oblique, skew
    • Independence: orthogonal, incommensurate, incongruous
    • Laterality: lateral, proximal, adjacent, association, adjunct, parallel, accompanying, collateral
  • Conceptual threshold:
    • Inflection point, juncture, watershed, landmark, milestone
    • Equilibrium, sweet spot, set point, level setting

Jurisprudence

  • Common law
  • Equity

Intermittent reinforcement schedule or variable-interval reinforcement (eg, email addiction)

Custodian – curator, maintainer, tender, caretaker, janitor

  • cultivate – foster, facilitate, tend, guide, garden
  • shepherd – supervise, steer, lead, superintend, conduct

Comprehension – comprehend, encompass, grasp, understand, glean, apprehend

Inherent: intrinsic, systemic, invariant, ~emergent

Impresario – svengali