ordering principle

collocation in English

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order
noun
uk
/ˈɔː.dər/us
/ˈɔːr.dɚ/
a request to make, supply, or deliver food ...
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principle
noun
uk
/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/us
/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/
a basic idea or rule that explains or controls how something happens ...
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(Definition oforderandprinciplefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is based on the weakorderingprinciple(see sect. 2.1 above), extended to gambles or lotteries among outcomes.
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The probabilistic model ranks documents according to their probability of being relevant to a query - theorderingprinciple.
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The most common response, perhaps, is to link these models of religion to a transcendent being, set of beings, ororderingprincipleof utmost importance.
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And it is at this point that we must try to discover from the old framework a neworderingprinciple that will open up new opportunities for elaboration by use.
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The adoption of such anorderingprincipledemonstrates something of the uniqueness of his attitude to the construction of place in the milieu of the late 1930s.
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This is sometimes referred to as the "hierarchicalorderingprinciple".
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Theorderingprincipleof an order of moral norms - and of an order of natural law, if one could exist - would be logical, as deduction.
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How can a random assemblage of fire or water produce an ordered universe without the existence of someorderingprinciple?
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Theorderingprincipleis anarchy; if this changed, inter-unit interactions would also change.
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These latter two causes (the formal and final), are concepts no longer used in modern science, and encompass the continuous effect of the intelligentorderingprincipleof nature itself.
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The anarchicorderingprincipleof the international structure is decentralized, meaning there is no formal central authority; every sovereign state is formally equal in this system.
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