Definder - what does the word mean?

What is First Principles?

Timothecles’ First Principle states that those should:

Seek freedom of the mind. One who masters the power of knowledge will possess the knowledge of power.

Timothecles’ First Principle could be defined as - questioning how to improve one’s intellect, status, wealth, sigma.

The Story:
After many hours of pondering, Timothecles returned to social consciousness to speak to the masses.

Legend proclaims he declared these words - “Seek freedom of the mind. One who masters the power of knowledge will possess the knowledge of power.”

His many followers soon realized his great sagacity and met him at the coliseum gates where he was, very slowly, making his way to his front-row bench seats to the empire-wide stoning at mid-day.

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First Principles - video


First Principles - what is it?

Starting from scratch, origin from baking as to start from raw ingredients. Most often used in the context of pizzas and software.

The resident expert was out so I used first principles to understand why the website was down. I had to look at the code to do so.

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