{"id":1522,"date":"2015-01-12T12:03:40","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T19:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/?p=1522"},"modified":"2015-01-12T12:03:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T19:03:40","slug":"first-principles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/?p=1522","title":{"rendered":"first-principles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/220px-Aristotle_Altemps_Inv8575.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1526\" src=\"http:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/220px-Aristotle_Altemps_Inv8575.jpg\" alt=\"220px-Aristotle_Altemps_Inv8575\" width=\"220\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\u201cThe normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy,\u201d\u00a0 With analogy we are doing this because it\u2019s like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing.<br \/>\nWith first principles you boil things down to the most fundamental truths \u2026 and then reason up from there.\u201d<br \/>\nThe first-principles approach has deep roots.<br \/>\nOver 2300 years ago, <span style=\"color: #4479bd;\"><span class=\"kLink\">Aristotle<\/span><\/span> said that a first principle is the \u201cfirst basis from which a thing is known\u201d and that pursuing first principles is the key to doing any sort of systemic inquiry \u2014 whether in philosophy,\u00a0 or in business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy,\u201d\u00a0 With analogy we are doing this because it\u2019s like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. With first principles you boil things down to the most fundamental truths \u2026 and then reason up from there.\u201d The <a href=\"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/?p=1522\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"first-principles\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-afternoon-tea","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}