I doubt this is being put forward as a “principle to uphold” since that would be self-contradictory. It is probably aimed at the sorts of cases where someone might say “well I wouldn’t have bothered but it was the principle of the thing”.
And in most of those cases “the principle of the thing” refers to what we would call TDT/UDT-type considerations.
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I doubt this is being put forward as a “principle to uphold” since that would be self-contradictory. It is probably aimed at the sorts of cases where someone might say “well I wouldn’t have bothered but it was the principle of the thing”.
And in most of those cases “the principle of the thing” refers to what we would call TDT/UDT-type considerations.