[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin doctrīna, from doctor, teacher]
SYNONYMS doctrine, dogma, tenet. These nouns denote a principle taught, advanced, or accepted, as by a group of philosophers: the legal doctrine of due process; church dogma; experimentation, one of the tenets of the physical sciences.
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Tenet
That's actually not a doctrine.
dopher
preferred position doctrine
"This holds true" is always used in sentences like "this holds true if certain conditions are met" and it then means 'this is true, provided....'
Predestination
vicarious liability
True
He believed their doctrine was true.
the doctrine of judicial restrain holds that judges should generally defer to precedent and to decisions made by legislature
True
A tenet is a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof.
the roosevelt corollary both subverted and contradicted the monroe doctrine.