first principles

French translation: Principes élémentaires

11:27 Jan 5, 2022

English to French translations [PRO]
Management / Project management

English term or phrase: first principles

By the end of this session you will be familiar with five of these activities which are:
• Plan schedule management
• Define activities
• Sequence activities
• Develop schedule and
• Control schedule

And you will be able to develop a simple schedule from FIRST PRINCIPLES.

Hugues Roumier KudoZ activity Questions: 251 (2 open) (2 without valid answers) (30 closed without grading) Answers: 83 France
Local time: 21:28

French translation:Principes élémentaires

Explanation:
Une proposition

Selected response from:

Anne-Elisabeth Schweitzer
Greece
Local time: 22:28

Grading comment

4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

3 +4

principes fondamentaux

Samuël Buysschaert

4 +2

Principes élémentaires

Anne-Elisabeth Schweitzer

lignes directrices

Philippe ROUSSEAU

Socle de règles d'or

JACQUES LHOMME

4 -3

en utilisant l'outil Ab Initio

Rocsana Guignaudeau

4 -4

Principes à priori

Anastasia Kalantzi

Discussion entries: 4

Answers

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

principes fondamentaux

Explanation:
Une suggestion,

Exemple:
https://www.foad-mooc.auf.org/IMG/pdf/intro_gestion_de_proje...

Samuël Buysschaert
France
Local time: 21:28
Native speaker of:

French

1 hr confidence:

lignes directrices

Explanation:
il s'agit ici d'une reprise des têtes de chapitres, qui développent les conduites à tenir essentielles, lesquelles se définissent comme autant de lignes directrices.

Philippe ROUSSEAU
France
Local time: 21:28
Native speaker of:

French
PRO pts in category: 4

4 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): -3

from FROM FRIRST PRINCIPLES en utilisant l'outil Ab Initio

Explanation:
Ab Initio le nom d'un outil informatique de manipulation de données "Extract Transform Load" (source Wikipedia)
I found several definitions of "First principles", but being an IT text, I propose the "Ab Initio" translation.

1. https://www.maray.ai/posts/first-principles-thinking: " a first principle is a proposition or an assumption on which true knowledge is based"
2. https://jamesclear.com/first-principles: " First principles thinking, which is sometimes called reasoning from first principles, is one of the most effective strategies you can employ for breaking down complicated problems and generating original solutions. "
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_principle: "A first principle is a basic proposition or assumption that cannot be deduced from any other proposition or assumption.". "In a formal logical system, that is, a set of propositions that are consistent with one another, it is possible that some of the statements can be deduced from other statements."

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ab_initio

Rocsana Guignaudeau
France
Local time: 21:28
Native speaker of:

Romanian
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

disagree

Germaine: On parle de gestion de projet et rien ne suggère cette traduction dans la phrase. Par contre, les définitions sont intéressantes et semblent corroborer l'option principes/hypothèses/règles élémentaires/de base/fondamentales.

1 hr

disagree

AllegroTrans: "Ab initio" has a quite different meaning to "first principles"

16 hrs

-> Yes, you're right, but in science, Ab Initio means from the First Principles. Look at the definition of Ab Initio in Wikipedia

disagree

Daryo: not in a year of Sundays // just because when naming their wares some people try "creatively" to misappropriate for themselves already existing general concepts does not give them any kind of monopoly on them.

1 day 40 mins

-> This is a community where people can write freely their comments and they try to help each other. This is not a place to say "I'm the best". So Mr. Daryo I don't like your irony and I feel like telling you you're totally impolite.

4 hrs confidence:

Socle de règles d'or

Explanation:
Une suggestion. Cordialement

JACQUES LHOMME
France
Local time: 21:28
Native speaker of:

French
PRO pts in category: 4

5 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): -4

Principes à priori

Explanation:
Nonetheless, les principes de base are the basic principles, and this isn't the case I presume.
A first principle is a basic proposition or assumption that cannot be deduced from any other proposition or assumption. In philosophy, first principles are from First Cause attitudes and taught by Aristotelians, and nuanced versions of first principles are referred to as postulates by Kantians. In physics, a calculation is said to be from first principles, or ab initio, if it starts directly at the level of established laws of physics and does not make assumptions such as empirical model and fitting parameters. Overall, a first principle is the first basis from which a thing is known. Thus, we could express it in French such as Principes à priori.

Anastasia Kalantzi
Greece
Local time: 22:28
Native speaker of: Greek

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

disagree

Germaine: Pas dans ce cas-ci. Il s'agit d'une formation. À priori = sans s'appuyer sur des faits; en supposant que. // Certainement pas! Essayer de cuisiner un gâteau en vous fondant sur des à priori et nous en reparlerons.

31 mins

-> Mais certainement si! Ce sont des principes d'une part à priori, mais en même temps basées toujours sur son propre expérience et les faits de son projet. C'est un tout amalgamé. Voilà!

disagree

Tony M: It is the 'schedule' that is to be developed 'from first principles' — in other words, going back to basics. / Be that as it may, there is no connection between 'a priori' and the meaning of the EN source text here.

2 hrs

-> Though the context is a little bit scrappy of some more juicy clues, only out of my own experience in family business administration, there's something that is strongly telling me that this à priori knowledge precedes anything else.

disagree

AllegroTrans: Agree with both of the above disagrees

3 hrs

-> Feel free to have the absolute right to express openly your opinion, but you forgot to declare some meaningful argumentation quote to that. Thank you.

disagree

Daryo: whatever the case might be ELSEWHERE, it simply doesn't fit IN THIS TEXT // No one is in this ST advocating applying some principles plucked out of thin air ...

1 day 14 mins

18 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

Principes élémentaires

Explanation:
Une proposition

Anne-Elisabeth Schweitzer
Greece
Local time: 22:28
Native speaker of:

French
PRO pts in category: 4

Login or register (free and only takes a few minutes) to participate in this question.

You will also have access to many other tools and opportunities designed for those who have language-related jobs (or are passionate about them). Participation is free and the site has a strict confidentiality policy.

Return to KudoZ list

KudoZ™ translation help

The KudoZ network provides a framework for translators and others to assist each other with translations or explanations of terms and short phrases.

See also:

ProZ.com term search

Search millions of term translations

first principles

French translation: Principes élémentaires

Answers

KudoZ™ translation help

Your current localization setting

Select a language

first principles

French translation: Principes élémentaires

Answers

KudoZ™ translation help

You have native languages that can be verified

Your current localization setting

Select a language