Methods
Principles and methods are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Principles" instead a noun "Methods".
Principles
Principles noun - General or basic truths on which other truths or theories can be based.
Methods and principles are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Methods" instead a noun "Principles".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Improv Fu: Encouraged, given that these methods tend to use elaborated techniques to explain principles, to the extent that an incoming technique may have several correct counters.
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In How Kazir Won His Wife, a sorcerer in the Framing Story identifies the moral of the story he tells as being "not to rely on general principles and routine mechanical methods"
Source: An Aesop - In Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, Harry is very much this trope, and can't really understand why no one's tried to take over the magical world with a working knowledge of scientific principles in the past.
Source: Young Conqueror
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