A belief or tenet, especially about philosophical or theological matters.
A self-imposed policy governing some aspect of a country's foreign relations, especially regarding what sort of behavior it will or will not tolerate from other countries.
The body of teachings of an ideology, most often a religion, or of an ideological or religious leader, organization, group, or text.
A hypothesis or conjecture.
A coherent statement or set of ideas that explains observed facts or phenomena and correctly predicts new facts or phenomena not previously observed, or which sets out the laws and principles of something known or observed; a hypothesis confirmed by observation, experiment etc.
A field of study attempting to exhaustively describe a particular class of constructs.
A set of axioms together with all statements derivable from them; or, a set of statements which are deductively closed. Equivalently, a formal language plus a set of axioms (from which can then be derived theorems). The statements may be required to all be bound (i.e., to have no free variables).
A description of an event or system that is considered to be accurate.
The underlying principles or methods of a given technical skill, art etc., as opposed to its practice.