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Baconian   Listen
noun
Baconian  n.  
1.
One who adheres to the philosophy of Lord Bacon.
2.
One who maintains that Lord Bacon is the author of the works commonly attributed to Shakespeare.
Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.






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... philosophy had become timid, official, and timeserving; retentive as FONTENELLE of the truths within its grasp, and fearful to give utterance to aught that might disturb the stillness of the temple, the lecture-room, or fashionable auditory. Modern teachers had been used so long to the Baconian go-cart, that they had become as apprehensive of losing the inductive clue as the PALINURUSES of old of the sight of the directing shore. But the time had arrived when it seemed expedient to relax the strictness of the investigative rule, and afford ...
— An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" • Anonymous

... Wrington, in Somerset, in 1632, the problem presented itself in another way. 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. Separating himself from the philosophers who held that the mind was capable of arriving at knowledge independent of experience, and from the sceptics who ...
— The World's Greatest Books—Volume 14—Philosophy and Economics • Various



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