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

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

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 Newman, John Henry

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

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

The inductive method, or the "Baconian" method of observation and experiment, began to bear rich fruits.

From Outline of Universal History by Fisher, George Park