Francis Bacon · Science
Francis Bacon argued that we discover nature’s laws not by guessing at grand principles but by a patient, gradual ascent from organised observations, illustrated by his famous inquiry into the form of heat.
Bacon’s true induction builds knowledge by tabulating presence, absence, and degrees of a nature, excluding what the instances contradict, and climbing slowly from particulars to axioms.
Leads to bacon-atlantis.
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