Baconian

American  

[bey-koh-nee-uhn] / beɪˈkoʊ ni ən /

adjective

1. of or relating to the philosopher Francis Bacon or his doctrines.

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noun

1. an adherent of the Baconian philosophy.

Baconian British  

/ beɪˈkəʊnɪən /

adjective

1. of or relating to Francis Bacon, the philosopher, or to his inductive method of reasoning

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noun

1. a follower of Bacon's philosophy

2. one who believes that plays attributed to Shakespeare were written by Bacon

Other Word Forms

• Baconianism noun
• Baconism noun
• anti-Baconian adjective
• pre-Baconian adjective
• pro-Baconian adjective

Etymology

Origin of Baconian

First recorded in 1805–15; Bacon + -ian

Example Sentences

More recently, Bostrom redefined the term as anything that would stop humanity from attaining what he calls "technological maturity," or a condition in which we have fully subjugated the natural world and maximized economic productivity to the limit — the ultimate Baconian and capitalist fever-dreams.

From Salon

The extent of Boyle’s involvement with alchemy after he left Dorset is still a matter of debate, and Lawrence Principe of Johns Hopkins University has made a persuasive case that Boyle was not so much trying to discard alchemy in favour of what we would now call chemistry, but that he was trying to bring the Baconian method into alchemy—to make alchemy scientific, as it were.

From Literature

If the Baconian system can be summed up in a sentence, it is that science must be built on the foundations provided by facts—a lesson that Boyle very much took to heart.

From Literature

Nor is the word ‘fact’ Baconian.

From Literature

It is this more easygoing Lucretian, Baconian, Charltonian approach which eventually became that of the Royal Society and of eighteenth-century science, in contradistinction to the far bolder one of Montaigne and Descartes.

From Literature