first principles
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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
SpaceX and Tesla, where he is also CEO, are built around first principles thinking, the idea that the laws of physics dictate whether something is possible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
It is rooted in the first principles thinking popular with Musk, McNeill told me for an episode of the “Bold Names” podcast.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026
Our first principles told us that Pauling could not be the greatest of all chemists without realizing that DNA was the most golden of all molecules.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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