Wednesday, September 24, 2008

PRECEPT

practical rule guiding conduct

rule of personal conduct
SYN - principle

a doctrine that is taught
SYN - commandment, teaching
"he believed all the christian precepts."

"He had a number of precepts set up for himself."

"Instead of looking at Nietzsche like the skeptical scholar he had always been, he accepting most of what he said unquestionably as precepts for his for everyday life."

"It wasn't that he was just being a stubbornly defiant teenager, he just fundamentally disagreed with the precepts of the school."

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