First-principles Definition

First-principles Sentence Examples

• At a time when social subjects were as a rule treated empirically, he brought first principles to bear at every point.

• Peacock's original contributions to mathematical science were concerned chiefly with the philosophy of its first principles.

• To revise one's first principles is to be an intuitionalist no longer.

• After completing his system (1896) Spencer continued to revise it, and brought out new editions of the Biology (1898-1899) and First Principles (1900).

• It may, however, be granted that the possibility of lapse throws us open to the objections, ingenuous or disingenuous, of the sceptic; and we must remain exposed to them so long as we deal with our first principles as so many isolated axioms or intuitions.