 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 438 Seiten
...preliminary to this part, he lays down the following rules for reasoning in natural philosophy :— 1. We are to admit no more causes of natural things than...such as are both true and sufficient to explain their natural appearances. 2. Therefore to the same natural effects we must always assign, as far as possible,... | |
 | James Cowles Prichard - 1829 - 268 Seiten
...philosophizing, that "we are to admit no more causes of natural things, or of the phenomena of Nature, than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances." " Causas rerum naturalium non plures admitti debere, quam quae et verffi sint et earum phsenomenis... | |
 | Benjamin Silliman - 1830 - 540 Seiten
...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,...true and sufficient to explain their appearances." ( h.) " Therefore, to the same, natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes."^... | |
 | Francis William Newman - 1838 - 208 Seiten
...more causes of natural things, or of the phenomena 1 Prichard on a Vital Principle, p. 21. of nature, than such as are both true, and sufficient to explain their appearances. This has been received as one of the fundamental laws of reasoning by natural philosophers; and a deduction... | |
 | Golding Bird - 1848 - 620 Seiten
...the mind 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...true and sufficient to explain their appearances. RULE II. Therefore, to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.... | |
 | Golding Bird - 1848 - 446 Seiten
...mind of the student, and should be confided in as the best guides in reasoning from experiment. Ilur.E I. We are to admit no more causes of natural things...true and sufficient to explain their appearances. RULE II. Therefore, to the eame natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.... | |
 | George Macintosh Maclean - 1859 - 140 Seiten
...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... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1871 - 436 Seiten
...reduction of bulk. Hence, if we adopt the first philosophical rule of Newton to " admit no more causes of things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances," we must discard the notion of impenetrability as one of those supposed causes which have become unnecessary... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1871 - 440 Seiten
...reduction of bulk. Hence, if we adopt the first philosophical rule of Newton to " admit no more causes of things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances," we must discard the notion of impenetrability as one of those supposed causes which have become unnecessary... | |
 | M. B. Craven - 1871 - 330 Seiten
...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... | |
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We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances. 
