Word: principioã
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...some Latin-derived languages such as Spanish the term for “principle” is the same as that for “beginning.” Hence “principio?? can convey either idea, which suggests that perhaps the conceptual gulf in languages like English should not be quite so steep. The abandonment of fully-determined mathematical models that cannot deliver the certainty they promise and the consequent embrace of uncertainty may thus be, for economics as well as volcanic ash predictions, a good new principle, but perhaps an even better...
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