first principles
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.41 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
noun
The set of basic statements on which a method, theory, or organisation is founded.
Example Sentences
- "The rules and regulations don't answer the question. First principles are required."
- "This book is aimed at any interested intelligent person, typically one with little background in syntax research. This is intended as a primer for smart people, possibly from other fields, who may be interested in human language and don’t know much about its structure. You may have heard that sentences are tree-structures: What does that even mean? Here, I break it down and explain it from first principles, in what I hope is an accessible way."
- "Mountainhead plays out less like a drama between four tenuously connected, very rich friends, and more like a random word generator of tech and finance bro jargon – decel (deceleration, as in AI), p(doom) (the probability of an AI apocalypse), first principles."