Rule
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Rule, ruler, ruling usually refers to standards for activities. They may refer to:
[edit] Human activity
- Business rule, a rule pertaining to the structure or behavior internal to an organization
- Game rules, rules that define how a game is played
- Moral, a rule or element of a moral code for guiding choices in human behavior
- Norm (philosophy), a kind of sentence or a reason to act, feel or believe
- Regulation of sport, rules for a sport
- Rule of thumb, a principle with broad application that is not intended to be strictly accurate or reliable for every situation
- Unspoken rule, an assumed rule of human behavior that is not voiced or written down
[edit] Science
- Norm (sociology), a term in sociology describing explicit or implicit rules used within society or by a group (i.e. social norms)
- Rule of inference or transformation rule, a term in logic for a function which takes premises and returns a conclusion
- "Rule X" elementary cellular automaton, where X is a number between 0-255 characterizing a specific model (e.g. Rule 110)
- Ruler, or "rule"; a distance measuring device
[edit] Law and government
- Procedural law, a ruleset governing the application of laws to cases
- A law, which may informally be called a "rule"
- A court order, a decision by a court
- Military rule, governance by a military body
- Monastic rule, a collection of precepts that guides the life of monks or nuns in a religious order
- Rule of law, a government that is not ruled by a person but by laws, as in a constitutional republic; no one person can rule and even top government officials are ruled by the law. In addition to this, in such a government, laws cannot be enacted which would undermine Rule of Law via the setup of separate frameworks of rules for separate subsets of the population.
- Ruler, see monarch, the person who rules a country
- In rulemaking by the federal government of the United States, a regulation mandated by Congress, but written or expanded upon by the Executive Branch
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