foundational principles
Basic guiding beliefs
Foundational principles are the basic ideas or beliefs that form the basis for a system, theory, or organization.
They're the starting assumptions from which everything else follows—the bedrock that supports higher-level rules and practices.
The course covers the foundational principles of economics.
Democracy rests on foundational principles like equal representation and individual rights.
- theoryExplanatory set of principles
- axiomSelf-evident starting principle
- moralityRight and wrong principles
- ontologyStudy of existence's nature
- hypothesisTestable proposed explanation
epistemology · framework · methodology · justice · dialectics · hierarchy · empiricism · falsifiability · ground rules · rationalism · natural law · rule of law · categorical imperative · fairness · paradigm · infrastructure · logic · integrity
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Specific pieces of information
specifics · particulars · applications · minutiae · technicalities
foundational principlespractical applications
Real-world implementations of ideas
operational procedures · nuts and bolts · praxis · fieldwork
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