WordNet
n. principles from which other truths can be derived; "first you must learn the fundamentals"; "let's get down to basics" [syn: fundamentals, basics, fundamental principle, bedrock]
Usage examples of "basic principle".
The basic principle and the ultimate results of all statist doctrines are the same: dictatorship and destruction.
The mutually accepted basic principle, in such case, is the principle of trade, namely: that the buyer must pay the seller for his product.
While Preventive Dianetics is a large subject, infiltrating the fields of industry and agriculture and other specialized activities of man, its basic principle is the scientific fact that engrams can be held to minimal content or prevented entirely with large gains in favor of mental health and physical well-being as well as social adjustment.
Singer, W Search for coherence: a basic principle of cortical self-organisation.
We could easily have denied ourselves the pleasure of your charming company but we thought that a certain basic principle was involved and in all innocence reported the violation.
Like him, she understood and applied the same basic principle: Follow the flow of money.
But complexity is contrary to the basic principle of successful lying, and Gramp is the very man who taught you that.