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unusual facts about first principles



Mathematics

The specialization restricting the meaning of "science" to natural science follows the rise of Baconian science, which contrasted "natural science" to scholasticism, the Aristotelean method of inquiring from first principles.


see also

Isaak Yaglom

The channel capacity work of Claude Shannon is developed from first principles in four chapters: probability, entropy and information, information calculation to solve logical problems, and applications to information transmission.

Laws of logic

Laws of thought, which present first principles (arguably) before reasoning begins