First Principle
In mathematics, first principles are referred to as axioms or postulates. Gödel's incompleteness theorems have been taken to prove, among other things, that no system of axioms that describe the set of natural numbers can prove its own validity - nor perhaps can it prove every truth about the natural numbers.
In philosophy, a first principle is a basic, foundational proposition or assumption that cannot be deduced from any other proposition or assumption.
Read more about First Principle: First Principles in Formal Logic, Aristotle's Contribution, Descartes, In Physics
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“It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)