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Permalink Submitted by dmikhaiel on Oct 16 2015
I have a hard time seeing how just because this one person said something, that it makes what they said a "general principle" and not just their own conclusion. How do we know that his statement truly is a "general principle" and not just their own conclusion, unless we were told that?

Permalink Submitted by majorgeneraldave on Oct 19 2015
I think you've confused "general principle" with "law of nature" or something of the like.
Consider this example:
If I say, "Muskrats are better at cooking vegetables than are men," then I've offered a general principle—it's a rule that applies generally. That doesn't mean it's true. But nobody asked whether it was true; we were concerned with describing the statement, not determining its truth-value.
Clearer?
