"As a government in a liberal democracy you sign up to some principles and upholding the rule of law has to be the most basic".
Isaac Asimov, for example, formulated the famous Three Laws of Robotics, which he felt should be the most basic governing behavior of all (artificially intelligent) robots.
"It could be the most basic dress that everybody loves, but still, it sometimes isn't what women want to wear," Mr. Siriano said.
Its face wore a vacant yet weary expression, and its cranium was mapped with what phrenologists had considered to be the most basic human propensities: Wonder, Parental Love, Calculation, Secretiveness.
On perhaps an even deeper level, what Wittgenstein's do-it-yourself life shows is how thinking, and the deeper memory that thinking requires, can be the most basic observance of cultural sacredness, an act akin to prayer.
For all its sci-fi sparkle and requisite fate-of-the-world stakes, the most salient aspects of Marvel Studios' "Black Panther" may be the most basic: It is the first major superhero movie with an African protagonist; the first to star a majority black cast; and in Ryan Coogler ("Creed," "Fruitvale Station"), the first to employ a black writer and director.
