derive-first-principles

Find or reverse engineer first principles from context.

Follow these steps:

1. Identify the convention

Identify a current belief and its conventional approach from the context of your task and the user's request.

2. Question every component

Is each a fundamental truth, or an assumption from convention, analogy, or authority?

3. Keep what survives

Keep only what survives the questioning.

4. Reason up

Given only the surviving fundamentals, what follows?