Fundamental truthmakers and non-fundamental truths

Natural Principles and Fundamental Truths

A note on fundamental, non-fundamental, and robust cycle bases

In many biological systems, robustness is achieved by redundant wiring, and reflected by the presence of cycles in the graphs connecting the systems’ components. When analyzing such graphs, cyclically robust cycle bases of are of interest since they can be used to generate all cycles of a given 2-connected graph by iteratively adding basis cycles. It is known that strictly fundamental (or Kirch...

Fundamental Functor Based on Hypergroups and Groups

The purpose of this paper is to compute of fundamental relations of hypergroups. In this regards first we study some basic properties of fundamental relation of hypergroups, then we show that any given group is isomorphic to the fundamental group of a nontrivial hypergroup. Finally we study the connections between categories of hypergroups and groups via the fundam...

Fundamental ecology is fundamental.

The primary reasons for conducting fundamental research are satisfying curiosity, acquiring knowledge, and achieving understanding. Here we develop why we believe it is essential to promote basic ecological research, despite increased impetus for ecologists to conduct and present their research in the light of potential applications. This includes the understanding of our environment, for intel...

Sherwood’s Plot: Fundamental or Empirical?

There are several examples of heuristic rules first proposed from empirical observation, which eventually earned physicochemical validity after the fundamental derivation of a posteriori. This may be the case of Sherwood’s plot – for which a sound rationalization from first principles, entailing enthalpy and mass balances, is provided here; it applies to (fine) chemicals undergoing concentr...