Underived vs Fundamental - What's the difference?
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not derived, not related.
*{{quote-book, year=1742, author=Samuel Johnson, title=The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 6, chapter=, edition=
, passage=If their rights are inherent and underived , they may, by their own suffrages, encircle, with a diadem, the brows of Mr. Cushing. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1859, author=Various, title=Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, Issue 15, January, 1859, chapter=, edition=
, passage="Firstly,--if underived virtue be peculiar to the Deity, can it be the duty of a creature to have it?" }}
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=Surendranath Dasgupta, title=A History of Indian Philosophy, Vol. 1, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Thus it is that though contact of the senses with the objects may later on be imagined to be the conditioning factor, yet the rise of knowledge as well as our notion of its validity strikes us as original, underived , immediate, and first-hand. }}
* {{quote-news, year=1988, date=December 2, author=Jonathan Rosenbaum, title=The Sound of German, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=He held that everything in existence is composed of four underived and indestructible substances--fire, water, earth, and air--and that atmosphere is a corporeal substance, not a mere void. }}
A leading or primary principle, rule, law, or article, which serves as the groundwork of a system; essential part, as, the fundamentals of linear algebra.
Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation. Hence: Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary.
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As adjectives the difference between underived and fundamental
is that underived is not derived, not related while fundamental is pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation. Hence: Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary.As a noun fundamental is
a leading or primary principle, rule, law, or article, which serves as the groundwork of a system; essential part, as, the fundamentals of linear algebra.underived
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(en adjective)Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, […]. A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.}}
