Francis Bacon · Science

Induction and Experiment: Bacon's True Method

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.

What you'll be able to recall

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.

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