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noun

Baconian n.

One who adheres to the philosophy of Lord Bacon.

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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Baconian" Quotes from Famous Books

... The Baconian philosophy, the reforms of the Novum Organum, the method of experiment and induction, are commonplaces, and sometimes lead to a misconception of what Bacon did. Bacon is, and is not, the founder of modern science. What Bacon believed could be done, what he hoped ...

— Bacon - English Men Of Letters, Edited By John Morley • Richard William Church

... spirit of truthfulness." "Mediaevalism" page 182, London, 1908.), truly scientific in its employment of hypothesis and verification, and in growing conviction of the reality of its subject-matter through the repeated victories of a mastery which advances, like science, in the Baconian road of obedience. It is reasonable to hope that progress in this respect will be more rapid and sure when religious study enlists more men affected by scientific desire and endowed with ...

— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others