Baconian method

American  

noun

Logic.

1. induction.

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Baconian method Cultural  

1. A method of experimentation, created by Francis Bacon (see also Bacon) in the seventeenth century, that derives its conclusions from observed facts rather than from previous conclusions or theories.

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Example Sentences

Among the contenders for the method, the Baconian method involved cataloguing many experiences of phenomena, then figuring out how to classify them.

From Scientific American • Mar. 5, 2013

One can hardly see how the Baconian method could have applied to concrete substances.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various

Avoid this sordid dreamer, and follow, in letters as in science, the Baconian method!

From Love Me Little, Love Me Long by Reade, Charles

If he is a theologian the first moment he gives himself up to meditation, he is on the road to the Baconian method the very day he begins to labour.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 by Various

The Baconian method of collating tables of instances may be a useful aid at certain times.

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William