0 one of the principles on which a belief or theory is based: --
It is a tenet of contemporary psychology that an individual's mental health is supported by having good social networks.
1 a principle that is an accepted belief of a particular group: --
One of the central tenets used to describe welfare economics-consumer sovereignty-is that consumers are the best judges of their own welfare (4;17).
Ironically, however, the increasingly powerful science used in patient care may undermine adherence to this tenet.
There are a number of other tenets associated with the cognitive linguistic enterprise which inform the present study.
The safety of survivors of domestic violence is the central tenet of this research project.
Specifically, it supports tenets (2*) and (3*), that non-personal objects have no intrinsic value, and that by loving such objects we mix ourselves with them.
Our work on cross-modal processing has employed such methods, obtaining results both in keeping with and at odds with the authors' basic tenets.
But was 'de-commodification' ever a key social democratic tenet?
Interestingly, both positions are in keeping with cognitive linguistic tenets.