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
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
“We have to get back to first principles, basic issues, of auditing,” Atkins said at a conference in December.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 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
