and science, a first principle is a basic proposition or assumption that cannot be deduced from any other proposition or assumption. First principles in...

Operation. It is important to differentiate an operational principle, including reference to 'first principles' from higher order 'guiding' or 'exemplary'...

themes in his later book titled Political Liberalism. The first and most important principle is that everyone has the same rights and fundamental freedoms...

literally quoted from the book: 1. The principle of mentalism "The All is Mind; the Universe is Mental." 2. The principle of correspondence "As above, so below;...

method, some consider that uniformitarianism should be a required first principle in scientific research. Other scientists disagree and consider that...

The proactionary principle is an ethical and decision-making principle formulated by the transhumanist philosopher Max More as follows: People’s freedom...

Non-Aggression Principle (NAP), also called the Non-Aggression Axiom, the non-coercion principle, the non-initiation of force and the zero aggression principle, is...

problem-solving principle that recommends searching for explanations constructed with the smallest possible set of elements. It is also known as the principle of parsimony...

priority, followed by the equal opportunity principle and finally the difference principle. The first principle must be satisfied before 2b, and 2b must...

'before' and an 'after', requires a first principle. He argues that in the beginning, if the cosmos had come to be, its first motion would lack an antecedent...

The uncertainty principle, also known as Heisenberg's indeterminacy principle, is a fundamental concept in quantum mechanics. It states that there is...

monism, the doctrine that all of reality can be derived from a single principle, "the One". Neoplatonism began with Ammonius Saccas and his student Plotinus...

The Pareto principle (also known as the 80/20 rule, the law of the vital few and the principle of factor sparsity) states that for many outcomes, roughly...

usually translated into English as "I think, therefore I am", is the "first principle" of René Descartes's philosophy. He originally published it in French...

The Peter principle is a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to "a level of respective...

Habits of Highly Effective People. His other books include First Things First, Principle-Centered Leadership, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families...

things are derived from a 'first reality', or first principle. In the emanationist concept all things are derived from this first reality or perfect God,...

in the Summa Theologiae, that just as the first principle of demonstration is the self-evident principle of noncontradiction ("the same thing cannot...

acronym for "Keep it simple, stupid!", is a design principle first noted by the U.S. Navy in 1960. First seen partly in American English by at least 1938...

Fermat's principle, also known as the principle of least time, is the link between ray optics and wave optics. Fermat's principle states that the path...

In mathematics, the pigeonhole principle states that if n items are put into m containers, with n > m, then at least one container must contain more than...

religious movement of Zoroastrianism in which the divinity Zurvan is a first principle (primordial creator deity) who engendered equal-but-opposite twins...

syndrome, also known as the Mount Rushmore syndrome or the firemen first principle, is a term used to describe the phenomenon of government agencies in...

(LNC) (also known as the law of contradiction, principle of non-contradiction (PNC), or the principle of contradiction) states that contradictory propositions...

Pleroma, where were exhibited the first manifestations of the evolution of subordinate existence from the great First Principle. All the early Gnostics of whose...

postulate of the minimization of the total travel costs: Wardrop's first principle of route choice, now known as "user equilibrium", "selfish Wardrop...

The anthropic principle, also known as the observation selection effect, is the proposition that the range of possible observations that could be made...

The identity of indiscernibles is an ontological principle that states that there cannot be separate objects or entities that have all their properties...

amount of heat to its surroundings. The principle was first proposed by Rolf Landauer in 1961. Landauer's principle states that the minimum energy needed...

The equivalence principle is the hypothesis that the observed equivalence of gravitational and inertial mass is a consequence of nature. The weak form...