Synonyms for first principles
first prin·ci·ples

Princeton's WordNet

1. rudiments, first principles, alphabet, ABC, ABC's, ABCsnoun

   the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural)

   "he mastered only the rudiments of geometry"

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1. first principles

   Synonyms:
   rudiments, principia

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1. John Richardson:

   They've been, I guess, fairly increasingly consistent in their response to these but if I just got back to first principles...I just want to make sure that the U.S. Navy's approach has been consistent. We haven't done anything increasingly provocative or anything else.

2. Cardinal John Newman:

   Half the controversies in the world are verbal ones; and could they be brought to a plain issue they would be brought to a prompt termination. Parties engaged in them would then perceive either that in substance they agreed together, or that their difference was one of first principles. We need not dispute, we need not prove, we need but define. At all events, let us, if we can, do this first of all and then see who are left for us to dispute; what is left for us to prove.

3. Confucius:

   Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

4. David Mamet:

   The proclamation and repetition of first principles is a constant feature of life in our democracy. Active adherence to these principles, however, has always been considered un-American. We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles of liberty, and, further, to indict those who do not freely join with us in happily arrogating those principles.