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RELATED WORDS : accounting principle archimedes' principle basic principle bitter principle elan vital exclusion principle first principle fundamental principle gestalt principle of organization guiding principle huygens' principle of superposition in principle indeterminacy principle judicial principle le chatelier principle le chatelier's principle le chatelier-braun principle legal principle life principle localisation principle localization principle mass-action principle moral principle pauli exclusion principle pleasure principle pleasure-pain principle pleasure-unpleasure principle principle principle of equivalence principle of liquid displacement principle of parsimony principle of relativity principle of superposition reality principle superposition principle uncertainty principle vital vital capacity vital force vital organ vital sign vital statistics working principle

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Noun vital principle has 1 sense

• vital principle(n = noun.person) life principle - a hypothetical force to which the functions and qualities peculiar to living things are sometimes ascribed; Array
is a kind of causal agency, causal agent, cause
has particulars: spirit

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Existence

N existence, being, entity, ens, esse, subsistence, reality, actuality, positiveness, fact, matter of fact, sober reality, truth, actual existence, presence, coexistence, stubborn fact, hard fact, not a dream, no joke, center of life, essence, inmost nature, inner reality, vital principle, ontology, existing, existent, under the sun, in existence, extant, afloat, afoot, on foot, current, prevalent, undestroyed, real, actual, positive, absolute, true, substantial, substantive, self-existing, self-existent, essential, well-founded, well-grounded, unideal, unimagined, not potential, authentic, actually, in fact, in point of fact, in reality, indeed, de facto, ipso facto, ens rationis, ergo sum cogito, thinkest thou existence doth depend on time?.

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