first principles
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Three decades on, the cutting edge of chess technology is artificial intelligence programmed to rediscover the wide world of possibilities from first principles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
One analyst who predicted it from first principles was Joachim Klement, a managing director at U.K. investment bank Panmure Liberum.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
The majority sees constitutional privacy as capable of adapting to technological change without abandoning first principles.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026
There are first principles on what makes a career: It’s something you enjoy, that you’re good at and that’s useful to someone else.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
Aristotelian philosophy had been based on the idea that one ought to be able to deduce sciences from generally accepted first principles, so that all science would be comparable to geometry.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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