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In literature, the word "tenet" is often employed to signify a core belief or principle that anchors an argument, doctrine, or way of life. It is used to denote both explicit dogmas in religious or philosophical discourse—such as a faith’s central doctrine or the underpinning of liberal reasoning—and implicit assumptions that guide behavior or policy. For instance, authors invoke "tenet" to describe a community’s defining belief or an academic principle that shapes its reasoning ([1], [2]), while in other contexts it appears within rhetorical or legal statements to assert an established rule or creed ([3], [4]). Moreover, the term’s use in classical and Latin texts highlights its dual role as both a verb indicating possession or holding and as a substantive expression of foundational opinions ([5], [6]).
  1. The peculiar tenet of independency, distinguishing it from Presbyterianism, consists in something else.
    — from The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11
  2. It was a prevailing tenet of the Academics that there is no certain knowledge.
    — from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations by Marcus Tullius Cicero
  3. Patet exitus; si pugnare non vultis, licet fugere; quis vos tenet invitos?
    — from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
  4. It was the cardinal tenet of their mode of reasoning to start with facts and to give names to the facts.
    — from Martin Eden by Jack London
  5. § Robertus le Caus tenet in eadem j. mesuagium et ij.
    — from Villainage in England: Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff
  6. Tenet mansum ingenuilem I, habentem de terre arabili bunuaria VIII et antsingas II, de [pg 175]
    — from Medieval People by Eileen Power

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