Newton Devised Four Rules For The System Of The World

Newton devised four rules for The System of the World. Rule one â€Å"We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances† (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy). The purpose of this is that the philosophers say that nature does nothing for no reason, and more of it has a reason when less of it is assisted, because nature is satisfied with simplicity, and the affects do not display any extra causes. Rule two states that â€Å"Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes† (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy). What is meant here is pretty self-explanatory but for an example let’s say that a human and an animal both†¦show more content†¦We are not to retreat from the analogy of Nature, which is this is not a simple undertaking that will always be in agreement with itself. There is no other way we know the limits of our bodies and our keen senses and some will never reach this limit in their bodies. It is stated the even though there is an abundance of these bodies, we learn by experience. All these bodies are impermeable, we do not gather from reason, but from the sensation. Being that these bodies are impermeable we can then conclude that this is a universal property of all these bodies. These bodies have extension, hardness, impermeable, mobility, it can then be said that there are particles that contribute to these extensions. These particles of our bodies could possibly be separated from each other making this a matter of observation and if these particles remain unseparated, then we may be able to deduce even lesser particles and may be conclude the findings mathematically. The trick to this is whether or not these lesser can be, but is could be possible by the powers of Nature that the particles are actually separated from each other making it undeterminable. Isn’t this is the foundation of all philosophy, where we ask these important question of what if or what else and etcetera. The last and final rule, rule four states â€Å"In experimental philosophy we are to look, upon propositions inferred by general