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 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

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

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)

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