Principles

Chapter 1 - Dimensions - Deeper dive

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Welcome to the Principles page

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What are principles?

We use the concept principle when it brings several patterns under one heading.

Therefore, a principle is nothing more than a statement that applies to more than one pattern. Patterns don't explain anything by themselves; that's what principles aim to do. They are about the underlying relationships between things and are therefore not perceptible to the senses.

Principles thus go a decisive step further than patterns: principles reveal an underlying regularity with which they attempt to explain the 'superficial' patterns. Principles are at their best when they can predict new patterns.

As an example, entropy is one of the basic principles of the universe.

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