fundamental principles
Bedrock of belief
Fundamental principles are the basic rules or truths that form the foundation of a system, theory, or practice.
They're the core ideas from which other rules derive: The Constitution rests on fundamental principles of individual liberty.
In science, fundamental principles are laws that cannot be derived from more basic truths.
In ethics or law, they're the bedrock values that guide all other decisions.
- gravityMutual mass attraction
- ontologyStudy of existence's nature
- arithmeticMathematics of basic operations
- justiceFair treatment under law
- geometryScience of spatial relationships
efficiency · algebra · epistemology · thermodynamics · set theory · equality · evolution · scientific method · universality · natural law · freedom · empiricism · axioms · ground rules · building blocks · entropy · rationalism · conservation laws
- constitutionsbill of rights, constitutional amendment, constitutional reform, clause, clauses
fundamental principlesminor details
incidentals · minutiae · trivialities · nonessentials · superficialities
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