tenet

plural tenets · alternative tenant

1. An opinion, belief, or principle that is held as absolute truth by someone or especially an organization.

   Opposition to climate science has become not just the badge of honour for far-right politicians like Ukip’s Paul Nuttall. It has become the central tenet of their appeal to unreason.

   2017 February 20, Paul Mason, “Climate scepticism is a far-right badge of honour – even in sweltering Australia”, in The Guardian

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   The Buddhist concept of tanha, for example — roughly translated as “blind demandingness” — encapsulates many tenets of R.E.B.T. and points the way toward emotional equanimity: stop asking more of the universe than it can possibly deliver.

   2009 October 5, “Enlightenment Therapy”, in The New York Times

   Synonyms: canon, lodestar