basic truth

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Hong’s company is named after the mathematical term for a basic truth that can be the starting point of an entire theory.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

A United official privately offered a basic truth about the club's rebuild much earlier in the summer though.

From BBC • Aug. 17, 2025

Its magic was in reminding us of a basic truth that humans can be and usually are good to each other.

From Salon • Oct. 16, 2024

For a culture that wallows in sports metaphors, we seem to have forgotten a basic truth: if you’re going to play, you’re going to lose sometimes.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2023

As Kuhn pointed out over and over again, one of the central purposes of an education in the sciences is to hide this basic truth from the next generation of scientists.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton