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For example, in some senses a "[[nature]]" is the ''source'' of a thing's action, and an "[[essence]]" is the ''source'' of a thing's being.
For example, in some senses a "[[nature]]" is the ''source'' of a thing's action, and an "[[essence]]" is the ''source'' of a thing's being.
A "[[cause]]" is a kind of principle, but the meaning of ''principle'' can be broader than "cause" in at least two ways. Firstly, a principle can be a "deprivation" in the sense of the absence of a thing understood to be present by nature. For example the absence of a woman's eye, of which could be spoken as a principle of certain actions.
A "[[cause]]" is a kind of principle, but the meaning of ''principle'' can be broader than "cause" in at least two ways. Firstly, a principle can be a "deprivation" in the sense of the absence of a thing understood to be present by nature. An example could be the absence of a woman's eye, of which could be spoken as a principle of certain actions.
Secondly, in Christian theology, the [[Son of God]] and [[Holy Spirit]] were not created but are said to have God the Father as their "source" or principle.
Secondly, in Christian theology, the [[Son of God]] and [[Holy Spirit]] were not created but are said to have God the Father as their "source" or principle.
Principles can be divided along three primary dimensions: principles of reality, moral principles, and logical principles.
An ''[[element]]'' or [[component]] or part is a kind of principle, which can always be a material cause; sometimes a final cause or end or an efficient cause or means; but never a formal cause (because the [[form]] into which a thing is caused to be must be a unity unless understood to be divisible, in which case the form is not the essential form of the thing, and the [[dividend]]s are able to be considered separately with their own set of other causes.
So there is a kind of hierarchy of the senses of principle, cause and element.
Principles can be divided along three primary dimensions: principles of reality, moral principles and logical principles.
== See also ==
== See also ==