basic principle

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basic principle - principles from which other truths can be derived; "first you must learn the fundamentals"; "let's get down to basics"fundamental principle, fundamentals, basics, bedrockprinciple - a basic truth or law or assumption; "the principles of democracy"ABC, ABCs, ABC's, first principle, first rudiment, rudiment, alphabet - the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural); "he mastered only the rudiments of geometry"