One of the foundations of modern linguistics is the maxim of categoricity : language is categorical.
They too condensed insights into maxims, riddles and gnomic sayings, or epigrams about prudent living and shrewd, insightful public decisions.
Moreover, and this is the main thing, these very propositions, maxims and values are the most important and worthwhile goals of every endeavor.
In the theoretical section, we consider four different maxims based on whether countries 2 and 3 are friends or rivals.
This too is an advice book, of course better known and greater as a text, while easily enough made to yield simple maxims.
The agent who considers himself to be acting on the more specific, allegedly universalizable maxim is deceiving himself about his true principles of action.
There is, secondly, the reliability of the agent's maxims.
The harm-based operation of tort law personalizes the potential consequences of our actions in a way that general maxims to "take care" do not.
