Sentence examples for being a first principle from inspiring English sources

The question returns us to the problem of PNC being a first principle for which there is no ordinary proof.

For her, feminism was a first principle.

Underpinning all decision making is a first principle of what the system should look like from the patient perspective.

THE FINANCIAL PLANNER Here's a first principle: Never invest more than you can afford to lose.

It was a first principle of dramatic writing, said Zeami, to base a play on a well-known incident in which the central character was familiar to the audience.

It is a first principle and also the firmest principle of all.

It is a first principle, and hence is not derived from anything more basic.

Since it is a first principle, it cannot be demonstrated; those who think otherwise are "uneducated in analytics".

Reid claims that the belief that we are endowed with power to produce our own actions is a first principle and then employs his general form of defense of first principles in order to argue that it must be so.

Consequently, in order to demonstrate the existence of a First absolute Principle, he must show not only that "for every causal order there is a first principle" (Ilāhiyyāt, VIII, 1, 327, 9) but also that causal chains are all based on the same First Principle.

It is a first principle of Christian theology that the entire canon of scripture is God-inspired and is of a piece.