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, basic principle, bedrock]
Usage examples of "fundamental principle".
Wolff laid it down as a fundamental principle of all research that 'nothing may be assumed, admitted or asserted that has not been actually seen and cannot be made similarly visible to others'.
At no time, perhaps, did the sovereign legislature manifest a more tender regard to that fundamental principle of British constitutional policy than at the time of the Revolution, when it deviated from the direct line of hereditary succession.
At that time the Second Law of Thermodynamics - everything runs down, disorder always increases - was thought to be a fundamental principle about the universe.
In harmony with this fundamental principle, the Society of Friends early rid itself of all connection with slavery.
And now he didn't, and it was as if some fundamental principle of physics had violated itself.