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Newton's Regulae Philosophandi


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Reulae IV. In Philosophiae experimentali, propositiones ex phaenomenis collectae per inductionem collectae, non obstantibus {contrariis} hypothesibus, pro veris auto accurate aut quamproxime haberi deberent debent, donec alia occurrerint phaenomena, per quae aut accurationes reddantus aut exceptionibus obnoxiae.

Hoc fieri debet ne argumentum inductionis tollatur per hypotheses.



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Reulae IV. In Philosophiae experimentali, propositiones ex phaenomenis per inductionem collectae, non obstantibus contrariis hypothesibus, pro veris auto accurate aut quamproxime haberi debent, donec alia occurrerint phaenomena, per quae aut accurationes reddantus aut exceptionibus obnoxiae.

Hoc fieri debet ne argumentum inductionis tollatur per hypotheses.

 



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