...is clear that these rules make assumptions about the nature of the universe. Thus rule 1 asserts: " We are to admit no more causes of natural things than...such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances" And Newton adds, "To this purpose the philosophers say that nature does nothing in vain,...

...edition). Boston: Allyn and Bacon. Representational economy in constraint-based phonology* GN Clements "We are to admit no more causes of natural things...such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances. " — Isaac Newton 1. Introduction The linguist setting out to describe the phonological...

...areas of knowledge before too easily assuming that they have no message for theology. Rule I reads: "We are to admit no more causes of natural things...such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances." And in explication: 'To this purpose the philosophers say that Nature does nothing in...

..."Rules of Reasoning in Philosophy" for some clarification. The first rule is the rule of simplicity: "We are to admit no more causes of natural things...such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances." The second rule is: "To the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign...

...being articulations of what are now referred to as Occam's razor and the principle of universality: We are to admit no more causes of natural things than...such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances. To this purpose the philosophers say that Nature does nothing in vain, and more is in...

...position of physical parsimony in his "Rules of Reasoning in Philosophy" in Book III of the Principia: "We are to admit no more causes of natural things...such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances" (Newton 1964:324). In the twentieth century, Einstein's special relativity may have been...

...as distinct from religion and religious explanation, determined, as Newton put it in his First Rule, "to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances,"3 and so the religious route to inherent value was blocked. Once the new scientific method...

...by supposition, as also the cause requisite for the production of the effect. Thomas Hobbes Rule I: We are to admit no more causes of natural things,...such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances. Newton [W]e may define a cause to be an object followed by another, and where all the...

...philosophizing, that is. for proceeding in a scientific treatment of any subject. The first is that "we are to admit no more causes of natural things...such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances." The second is that "to the same effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same...

...against galvanism over the past eight years; a stance inspired by the old maxim according to which "We are to admit no more causes of natural things...such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances."86 Yalta's Battery, 2 As already hinted at, news of the reception of the battery and the...