 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - 2003 - 496 Seiten
...1726. Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1687) 'Rules of Reasoning in Philosophy' Rule I. 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... | |
 | Roddam Narasimha, J Srinivasan, S K Biswas - 2003 - 314 Seiten
...from Book III of the Principia, where he lays down 'Rules of reasoning in philosophy'. Rule 1 says: 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... | |
 | John Vorhaus - 2003 - 304 Seiten
...essence, that the simplest explanation is likeliest to be true. Isaac Newton interpreted it this way: "We are to admit no more causes of natural things...such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances." Given a choice between your foe having cracked some alchemical algorithm on one hand,... | |
 | David C. Lindberg, Roy Porter, Ronald L. Numbers - 2003 - 956 Seiten
...rule of philosophizing for further ammunition. As interpreted by Reid, Newton's "golden rule" that "we are to admit no more causes of natural things...such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances" proscribed the use of hypotheses in philosophy because it demanded of any causal explanation... | |
 | Frederick Copleston - 2003 - 452 Seiten
...philosophy. The first of these is the principle of simplicity, which states that we ought not to admit more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances. The second rule states that to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign... | |
 | Denis Patrick O'Brien - 2004 - 458 Seiten
...and AS Skinner, Adam Smith Reviewed (Edinburgh, 1992). 38. Newton's four principles were as follows: 1. We are to admit no more causes of natural things...such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances; 2. therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same... | |
 | C. Truesdell, Walter Noll - 2004 - 636 Seiten
...constitutive equations. It may be regarded as a natural extension of OCKHAM'S razor as restated by NEWTON : ' We are to admit no more causes of natural things than...such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances, for nature is simple and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.' This more general... | |
 | 2004 - 268 Seiten
...Newton, Principia ... 1687. Eigen vertaling uit het engels: Rules of reasoning in philosophy. Rule I. We are to admit no more causes of natural things than...such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances ... Rule II. Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign... | |
 | Bernie Koenig - 2004 - 356 Seiten
...methodological implications of his work. In his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. he said that "We are to admit no more causes of natural things...such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances." Newton states this "since the qualities of bodies are only known to us by experiments,... | |
 | John Wainwright, Mark Mulligan - 2004 - 434 Seiten
...2001). Newton stated it as the first of his principles for fruitful scientific research in Principia as: 'We are to admit no more causes of natural things...such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.' Parsimony is a prerequisite for scientific explanation, not an indication that nature... | |
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To this purpose the philosophers say that Nature does nothing in vain, and more is in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes. 
