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

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

What can be more noble than the Baconian method?

From The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin by Newman, John Henry

The severest requirements of the Baconian method of induction—requirements which have been notoriously disregarded by men of science in the investigation of Nature—remain in force as regards the students of history.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 by Various

Instead of accepting the validity of clear ideas, as Descartes and Spinoza did, he adopted the Baconian method, and opened the inquiry into the origin and formation of ideas.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir