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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Baconian method

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

It overthrew the old ideas of science and gave a new meaning to the Baconian method of investigation.

From Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose by Dickey, J. M. (John Marcus)

This is to evade the Baconian method, humble and wise, and crawl back to the lazy and self-confident system of the ancients, that kept the world dark so many centuries.

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 severest requirements of the Baconian method of induction—requirements which have been notoriously disregarded by men of science in the investigation of Nature—remain in force as regards the students of history.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 by Various