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

Derived Forms

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

Etymology

Origin of Baconian

First recorded in 1805–15; Bacon + -ian

Example Sentences

It’s finished in a louring Baconian grey, the colour of a hospital gurney.

From The Guardian • Jun. 24, 2016

So too had Baconian natural philosophy and the broad effect of skepticism toward the claims of scholastics.

From Salon • Nov. 26, 2015

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

Summarized were all the scholarly comments on every disputed passage, and the Baconian theory was exhaustively surveyed.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton