An idea from Critique of Pure Reason

You can spot the part your mind supplies by two marks: necessity and strict universality. Experience tells you how things are, never that they could not be otherwise. A rule with no possible exception, like every change has a cause, did not come from counting cases.

From Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

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