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work_clhkxnz7czaxzm6iphn2ot6ku4	Kirsten Walsh	Newton: From Certainty to Probability?	2017	13	.pdf	application/pdf	5946	541	59	Some commentators argue that Newton ultimately gave up claims of certainty in favor of a high degree of probability. passage expresses a similarly qualified notion of certainty as that which Newton expressed two years earlier, in his Optical Lectures in 1670. interpretation, based on the application of rule 4 to Newton's argument for universal gravitation: rule 4 advises us to adjust the scope of generalizations, not Rule 4 and Newton's Argument for Universal Gravitation. regard proposition 5 as "either exactly or very nearly true," (b) new observational evidence may make proposition 5 "either more exact or liable to exceptions," and (c) proposition 5 may not be refuted by "contrary hypotheses." I Newton tells us that hypotheses must not influence our epistemic attitude toward the theory (i.e., proposition 5). Newton emphasized the mathematism and certainty of his theory, but in June Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method.	./cache/work_clhkxnz7czaxzm6iphn2ot6ku4.pdf	./txt/work_clhkxnz7czaxzm6iphn2ot6ku4.txt