[Vwoolf] "principle" in place of "principal"

Sunjoo Lee abgrund at naver.com
Thu Oct 24 05:38:42 EDT 2013


Hi, everyone,  
 
I have been a bit bugged by seeing "principle" when the word has to be "principal." 
I saw that happening in doctoral dissertations and (in a few cases) articles from well-known journals, or even books from good publishers. 
 
And this afternoon, from Heidegger's Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics (Indiana UP, 1997), I found: 
 
"Thus the knowledge of beings in general (Metaphysica Generalis) and the knowledge of its principle divisions (Metaphysica Specialis) become a "science established on the basis of mere reason."" (6). 
 
And now I wonder, has "principle" been accepted as an alternate spelling of "principal"? Only I haven't been aware of it? 
Dictionaries I use don't have such information. Has anyone else wondered about this? 
 
 
Sunjoo 
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