"… it's important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. We are doing this because it's like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. But with first principles, you boil things down to the most fundamental truths and then reason up from there."

Is a basic, foundational, self-evident proposition or assumption that cannot be deduced from any other proposition or assumption.

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Recently, the idea of "first principle thinking" came up quite a few times in my readings of various articles. If you have a doctoral degree or if you are a scientist, you may already be familiar with it. Unfortunately, I am neither and hopelessly ignorant.

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