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How To Use first principles In A Sentence

• 'The first principles of commercial activity have retreated to earth's maziest penetralia, where no tides are! is it not so, Skepsey?' said Mr. Fenellan, whose initiative and exuberance in loquency had been restrained by a slight oppression, known to guests; especially to the guest in the earlier process of his magnification and illumination by virtue of a grand old wine; and also when the news he has to communicate may be a stir to unpleasant heaps. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
• Rather, he appears to have seen it as an organon for the acquisition of knowledge from unquestionable first principles; in addition he wanted to use it in order to help make clear the epistemic foundations on which our knowledge rests. Saving Prostitutes in Sevilla
• American neo-conservatives and their Republican outriders have worked tirelessly for 50 years to promote this hocus pocus, which offends not only the first principles of humanity, but of what we know about capitalism. Growth is about so much more than just the top rate of tax | Will Hutton
• They believed Britain had abandoned the first principles of its constitution.
• Sustainability, protection of wildlife, controlling agribusiness and pollution are first principles, not afterthoughts.
• I fully concede that you may not go through cost-benefit analysis in devising your preferred list of rights or your preferred set of first principles. The Volokh Conspiracy » The “Racist” Charge
• John was an astonishing experimentalist, who always seemed to work out scientific ideas from first principles, all those ideas that are taught in introductory chemistry and physics classes. Martin Chalfie - Autobiography
• 'The first principles of commercial activity have retreated to earth's maziest penetralia, where no tides are! is it not so, Skepsey?' said One of Our Conquerors — Complete
• From the outset of our conference I want to enunciate those first principles.
• Whence 'synderesis' is said to incite the good, and to murmur at evil, inasmuch as through first principles we proceed to discover, and judge of what we have discovered. Matt J. Rossano: Thomas Aquinas: Saint of Evolutionary Psychologist?