Sublime

he might instead assume a property of the axiom was correct and then try to determine the consequences of this assumption.

Still needed was a systematic exposition of the fundamental principles—the Axioms—upon which all later superstructures could be built. The present work is humbly offered as a first approach to that goal.

No random actions, none not based on underlying principles.

The Necessary Assumption exists at the top of every S&T entity with the exception of the very top entity—the overall company strategy.

Here’s a simple definition of knowledge: To represent reality in thought or experience the way it really is on the basis of adequate grounds.

Necessary Assumption: The Necessary Assumption tells us the reason we need a strategy—why creating this particular strategy is necessary to our success. Once we know why we need a strategy, we can create one from a foundation of understanding.

following our rule of placing the most fundamental Axioms at the beginning, we present the Fundamental Law of Administrative Workings (F.L.A.W.): THINGS ARE WHAT THEY ARE REPORTED TO BE The observant reader has doubtless already noted various alternative formulations of this Axiom, all to the same general effect, for example: THE REAL WORLD IS WHAT

A fact is something made or done. It has clear objective status.

Occam’s razor cuts through the clutter that often gets in the way of first-principles thinking. The most elegant theories rest on the fewest assumptions. The most elegant solutions, the rocket scientist David Murray writes, “use the least number of components to solve the greatest number of problems.”