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
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
Certainly, a new thing is not necessarily wrong; but neither is a new thing necessarily right; and we are heartless enough to pronounce the "Baconian theory" rather weak than otherwise for a hero.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 by Various
His best-known aide was Ignatius Donnelly, of Minnesota, a devotee of the Baconian theory and of the "Lost Atlantis," who was now devoting his active mind to the support of free silver.
From The New Nation by Dodd, William E.
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