basic principle
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This is a basic principle: If AI lowers the cost of routine work, it raises the value of everything else.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
Evolutionary biology explains this contrast through a basic principle: energy is limited, and species must divide it between reproduction and maintaining their bodies.
From Science Daily • Jan. 16, 2026
“It is a basic principle in this country that if you break the law, you will face a consequence for that,” Leavitt said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2025
Writing for a unanimous court, Justice Elena Kagan restored the basic principle that reasonableness under the Fourth Amendment cannot be measured in a blink.
From Slate • May 15, 2025
It is a variation of the basic principle that if you know one angle and one side of an equilateral or right-angled triangle, then you can determine the other angles and sides.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
