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

When it was discovered that the whole structure of philosophy was without foundation, a new order of procedure was recommended—the Baconian method.

From On Limitations To The Use Of Some Anthropologic Data by John Wesley Powell

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 Charles Reade

What can be more noble than the Baconian method?

From The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin by John Henry Newman

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 J. M. (John Marcus) Dickey