Enquiries into very many received tenets and commonly presumed truths, also known simplyas Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Vulgar Errors, is a work by Thomas Browne challenging andrefuting the 'vulgar' or common errors and superstitions of his age. Browne's three determinantsfor obtaining truth were firstly, the authority of past authors, secondly, the act of reason andlastly, empirical experience.E.J. Merton summarised the ambiguities of Browne's scientific view-point thus"Here is Browne's scientific point of view in a nutshell. One lobe of his brain wants tostudy facts and test hypotheses on the basis of them, the other is fascinated by mysticsymbols and analogies."Discus in terms of accounting first and then in relation to auditing