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
This Celtic divine was twenty-five, Miss Bacon was thirty-five; there arose a misunderstanding; but Miss Bacon had developed her Baconian theory before she knew Mr. MacWhorter.
From The Valet's tragedy, and other studies by Lang, Andrew
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
Mr. Lawrence had written pamphlets and essays on the Baconian theory, and I found my knowledge of the subject expanding and growing under his intelligent talk.
From An Autobiography by Spence, Catherine Helen
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