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Principle

German: Prinzip

Common meaning:
Fundamental rule, law, or truth
Clear meaning:
The unnamed structure from which all arises—not a rule, but the source of pattern.

Principle comes from Latin principium—beginning, origin.
It is not imposed,
but reveals itself from within.

Structurally, a principle is not a prescription,
but the architectural source of form.

Principles are not constraints,
but the spaces that make structure possible.

Principle is not what you follow—
it is what
supports you when you let go.