Baconian method
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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
It overthrew the old ideas of science and gave a new meaning to the Baconian method of investigation.
From Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose by Dickey, J. M. (John Marcus)
The Baconian method of collating tables of instances may be a useful aid at certain times.
From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William
If he is a theologian the first moment he gives himself up to meditation, he is on the road to the Baconian method the very day he begins to labour.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 by Various
Avoid this sordid dreamer, and follow, in letters as in science, the Baconian method!
From Love Me Little, Love Me Long by Reade, Charles
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