 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 788 pages
...• and, as a necessary preliminary to this pa t, he lays down the following rule* for reasoning ia natural philosophy. 1 . We are to admit no more causes of natural thing* than such as are both true and lufficiem to ei plain their natural appearance*. '2. Therefore... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Astronomy - 1815 - 686 pages
...principles established in the preceding books." As u necessary preliminary to this 3d part, Newton lays down the following rules for reasoning in natural...: — 1. We are to admit no more causes of natural thing», than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their natural appearances. — 2- Therefore... | |
 | Benjamin Silliman - Chemistry - 1830 - 540 pages
...provisionally, until somediing better can be done.* (g.) We will add from Sir Isaac Newton, dial, " we are to admit no more causes of natural things,...such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances." ( h.) " Therefore, to the same, natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the... | |
 | Golding Bird - Physics - 1848 - 620 pages
...of the student, and should be confided in as the best guides in reasoning from experiment. 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... | |
 | George Macintosh Maclean - Matter - 1859 - 140 pages
...the shortest and safest way to the attainment of true and useful knowledge, are as follows : — " I. We are to admit no more causes of natural things,...than such as are both true and sufficient to explain the appearances. " II. Therefore, to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the... | |
 | M. B. Craven - God - 1871 - 330 pages
...will serve, apparently endorses Aristotelian sentiment by saying, " We are to admit no more causes for natural things, than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearance ;" on the ground that Nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - Knowledge, Theory of - 1874 - 512 pages
...interpretation of a phenomenon must be the interpretation of it in terms of Feeling. RULE V. — " We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true, and sufficient to explain the appearances." REMARK. This is Newton's First Rulc ; and, though not expressed with perfect precision,... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - Knowledge, Theory of - 1874 - 456 pages
...interpretation of a phenomenon must be the interpretation of it in terras of Feeling. EULE V. — " We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true, and sufficient to explain the appearances" REMARK. This is Newton's First Eule ; and, though not expressed with perfect precision,... | |
 | Insanity (Law) - 1875 - 374 pages
...since the facts are as readily accounted for without it, and Newton lays down the law that we should admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain the appearances. It would appear,in fine, that the differences and the difficulties of the metaphysical... | |
 | James Samuelson, Sir William Crookes - Science - 1878 - 606 pages
...of Philosophising " laid down by Newton in his " Principia." I. " We are to admit no more causes ot natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances." II. " To the same natural effects, therefore, we must, as far as possible, assign the... | |
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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. 
