 | Mario Bunge, Professor Mario Bunge - 2006 - 361 Seiten
...new section. The first of Newton's (1947 [1687]: 398) Rules of Reasoning in Philosophy reads thus: "We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and efficient to explain their appearances." Shorter: Noumena are to explain phenomena. This is why Newton's... | |
 | Peter Graneau, Neal Graneau - 2006 - 290 Seiten
...example of a short chain theory and he made sure of this by applying his first rule of reasoning [4.2]: "We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are true and sufficient to explain their appearances." The single assumption of mutual simultaneous far-actions... | |
 | Andrew Worsley - 2006 - 120 Seiten
...incredibly elegant approach that unifies physics as "one stupendous whole." Light and Matter Waves We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances. Therefore to the same natural effects we... | |
 | Gloria L. Schaab - 2007 - 256 Seiten
...Naturalis Prindpia Mathematica, regarded as foundational in the so-called scientific revolution: 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 the... | |
 | Carlos Gershenson, Diederik Aerts, Bruce Edmonds - 2007 - 359 Seiten
...Ptolemaic one whilst the evidence was still equivocal. Newton made it one of his rules of reasoning: "we are to admit no more causes of natural things...such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes."... | |
 | Keith Stewart Thomson - 2007 - 344 Seiten
...down in his Principia Mathematica of 1687, the foundation stone of modern science: 'We are to admit of no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances [and] . . . Like effects proceed from like causes.' Whether Paley can be thought truly... | |
 | Richard Olson - 2008 - 370 Seiten
...object exterior to ourselves." 15 From Newton's first Rule of Right Reasoning, which insisted that, "We are to admit no more causes of natural things...such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances ... for nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes,"... | |
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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. 
