Baconian method


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Related to Baconian method: Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Bacon
the inductive method. See Induction.

See also: Baconian

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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He devised a classification system for the collections based on the baconian method which grouped the books by subjects.
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A minor flaw in Matthews's argument is his assignment of Cabanis wholly to the "artistic" side of the dispute before 1808, while in fact the analytical, Baconian method for medicine unwittingly led to a statistical approach to the clinic.
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