To make progress it is necessary to go back to first principles.
Any other approach, particularly one derived from methodological first principles, could, he thought, lead us wildly astray.
Here, synthesis follows first principles and building blocks draw from a small, well-defined set.
The harder task is to generate from first principles a description of institutions and institutional change over time.
Other writers looked to "the nature of man" as their starting point for evidence of first principles.
The relevant available domain knowledge is typically a combination of first principles and experiential 0 empirical knowledge, and is usually incomplete and sometimes erroneous.
The approach taken starts from first principles and relies heavily on mathematics to guide the arguments.
The random displacement of magnetic field lines in the presence of magnetic turbulence in plasmas is investigated from first principles.
