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@Thinker:

Thinker,

This is why I am a fundie.

Fundamental
Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation. Hence: Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary; as, a fundamental truth; a fundamental axiom.
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A leading or primary principle, rule, law, or article, which serves as the groundwork of a system; essential part, as, the fundamentals of the Christian faith.

Antonyms: absurdity, ambiguity, foolishness, nonsense, paradox

You can’t practice science without being one.

An example of fundamentals;

A1 – for any such real numbers a and b, a+b=b+a, the commutative law

A2 – for any such real numbers a,b and c, a+(b+c) = (a+b)+c, the associative law

A3 – for any real number a there exists an identity, 0, such that, a+0 = a, the identity law

A4 – for any real number a there exists a number -a such that a+(-a)=0, the inverse law

A5 – for any real numbers a and b, there exists a real number c, such that a+b=c, the closure property.

These 5 axioms, when combined with the axioms of multiplication and a bit of logic/analytical thinking, can build up every number field, and from there extend into differentiation, complex functions, statistics, finance, mechanics and virtually every area of mathematics.