basic tenet
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbasicandtenet
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basic
adjective
uk/ˈbeɪ.sɪk/us/ˈbeɪ.sɪk/
simple and not complicated, so able to provide the base or starting point from which something ...
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tenet
noun[C]
uk/ˈten.ɪt/us/ˈten.ɪt/
one of the principles on which a belief or theory ...
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(Definition ofbasicandtenetfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The model is built on thebasictenetof binomial dichotomy.
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The first assumption is abasictenetof economic analysis.
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By using the attribute definition, thebasictenetof the negative binomial model is unaltered.
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Thebasictenetof constructivism is that learners construct their knowledge on their own by associating new with prior information.
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This has been, and in fact still remains, abasictenetof organic agriculture that has not yet been fully explored.
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Thebasictenetof the former is that constraints may be randomly ordered on a language-specific basis.
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Thebasictenet, however, that perception leads to action, is such a general feature of animal behavior, social or nonsocial, that the model's specificity is often lost in its scope.
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However, thebasictenetof the efficiency hypothesis, is that governments may collect less taxes and can hardly run budget deficits in response to an increase of capital openness.
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Both factors encouraged the rise of the state as an economic and social reformer, abasictenetof eighteenth-century political thought.
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He had attacked such abasictenetas the rationality assumption, forging such a peculiar and innovative concept as that of animal spirits.
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If we follow the otherbasictenetof the "morphological method", then the answer is unequivocally "yes".
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Hisbasictenetwas, at least on paper, that there be no special privileges for any one language.
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The concept of empathy - abasictenetof good professional practice - is the ability to put oneself in the position of the person needing care.
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It would be irresponsible-and at least potentially unethical-for a business not to attend to thisbasictenetof success.
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Laland et al. accept thebasictenetof evolutionary psychology that there is considerable naturally-selected structuring of the mind.
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That is abasictenetof constitutional law, which is centuries old.
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Certainly it is my own view that marriage has always been thebasictenetof society.
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That was abasictenetwhich we all accepted.
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That is thebasictenetof such individuals' beliefs, which caricature an entire people.
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In that speech he formally disowned thebasictenetof monetarism.
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