English Dictionary

first truth

名詞

A statement that is not proved but rather supposed or held as obvious, forming together with other such statements the basis of a system of statements obtained from them by inference; an axiom.

日本語の意味

公理（証明を要せず自明とされる基本的命題） / 自明の原理（証明されずに自明なものとされる原理） / 第一原理（論理体系や思想体系の出発点となる基本命題）

In our philosophical system, the first truth is accepted without proof and serves as the foundation for all subsequent reasoning.

私たちの哲学体系では、公理は証明を必要とせず、すべての後続の推論の基礎として受け入れられている。

意味（1）

A statement that is not proved but rather supposed or held as obvious, forming together with other such statements the basis of a system of statements obtained from them by inference; an axiom.

These are the principles also treated of, in a former work, under the name of First Truths. They are not, like our knowledge of the other kind, the result of any process either of investigation or of reasoning; and, for the possession of them, no man either depends upon his observation, or has recourse to that of other men.

first truths （ plural ）