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  1. Rule 1
    • We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
  2. Rule 2
    • Therefore to the same natual effects we must, as far as possible, assign the samce causes.

Isaac Newton (1687) Rules of reasoning in philosophy, Book III, in The Principia.