Prin-se-pel

1. The ultimate source, origin, or cause of something.
2. A natural or original tendency, faculty, or endowment.
3. A fundamental truth, law, doctrine, or motivating force, upon which others are based.
4. A rule of conduct, esp. of right conduct.
5. An essential element, constituent, or quality, esp. one that produces a specific effect.
6. The scientific law that explains a natural action; The method of a thing's operation.

Innate told me to look up the word "principle" in Webster's, so I did. I think innate knew what it was doing when he told BJ to start using the word "Principle" in reference to innate.