The roots of First Principles Thinking sit deep, tracing back to none other than Aristotle, the ancient Greek philosopher. Aristotle’s exploration of this concept in his work, “Metaphysics,” laid the groundwork for study of critical thinking and analysis. He proposed that understanding anything in its most basic form involves identifying its “first causes” or “principles” — the fundamental truths or building blocks from which everything else is derived.
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