Baconian theory
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Baconian theory
First recorded in 1870–75
Example Sentences
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Once, I was told, Professor Kittredge advised the members of his English class at Radcliffe not to read any books on the Baconian theory.
From Time Magazine Archive
Summarized were all the scholarly comments on every disputed passage, and the Baconian theory was exhaustively surveyed.
From Time Magazine Archive
The next chapter in Norwegian Shakespeareana is a dull, unprofitable one—a series of articles on the Baconian theory appearing irregularly in the monthly magazine, Kringsjaa.
From An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway by Ruud, Martin Brown
The Baconian theory of induction regarded the accumulation of facts and the derivation of general principles and laws from them as the true and fruitful method of science.
From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various
They took her to hear Ignatius Donnelly with his Baconian theory; Ingersoll hammering at Moses, and Jenness-Miller with her Reformed Clothes for Women.
From The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
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