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

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

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

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