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First principle
noun
A basic, foundational proposition or assumption that cannot be deduced from any other proposition or assumption.
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It's a good first principle.
For her, feminism was a first principle.
Whereupon a first principle was established.
"My first principle: thou shalt not kill.
That is the first principle of recovery".
The first principle is to keep corporate structures simple.
His first principle: "Let go of the past".
The first principle being a lump of lead.
From this first principle spin many other assumptions and discriminations.
The first principle of medicine is do no harm.
The first principle of the Ptolemaic model is eccentric motion.
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