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The Four Rules of Scientific Reasoning
Newton was keen on making sense of the revelation of saint john. He wrote down a long series of rules for a book he was writing, but never completely published. In principiine 16 87, he includes four rules of scientific reasoning. The first two rules set out an aim for natural philosophy - causes and effects. Third rule is that there will be some properties of the world that we think are universal in the world. And final rule is newton's account of induction: 'We should not tolerate hypotheses'