Tenet /(?)/

Ten·et

Tenet

n.
  1. Any opinion, principle, dogma, belief, or doctrine, which a person holds or maintains as true; as, the tenets of Plato or of Cicero.
    That al animals of the land are in their kind in the sea, . . . is a tenet very questionable.
    The religious tenets of his family he had early renounced with contempt.