Principles
Principles noun - General or basic truths on which other truths or theories can be based.
Stems and principles are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Stems" instead a noun "Principles".
Stems
Principles and stems are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Principles" instead a noun "Stems".
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- Much of the criticism in-play and outside of it, stems from the fact that he is such a hardliner on his basic principles.
Source: Theatre / Brand -
This largely stems from the the (mostly French) Continental schools of Enlightenment which, unlike British Empiricism, argued on Cartesian ideas of "first principles" i.e.
Source: Romanticism Versus Enlightenment
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