Precept vs Decisionism - What's the difference?
precept | decisionism |
A rule or principle, especially one governing personal conduct.
* 2006 : ,
** I need hardly point out that Pinker doesn't really believe anything of what he writes, at least if example is stronger evidence of belief than precept .
* 1891 :
** He found a people in the extreme of barbarism living in caves, feeding upon the bloody flesh of animals they killed in hunting; he taught them many things, so that by his example, and for generations after he left them by his precepts , they advanced to high civilization.
(legal) A written command, especially a demand for payment.
The doctrine that moral or legal precepts are the product of decisions made by political or legal bodies
As nouns the difference between precept and decisionism
is that precept is a rule or principle, especially one governing personal conduct while decisionism is the doctrine that moral or legal precepts are the product of decisions made by political or legal bodies.As a verb precept
is (obsolete) to teach by precepts.precept
English
(wikipedia precept)Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)The Gift of Language