Baconian method
induction (def 4a).
historical examples
all the problems of woodland cookery are best saved by the baconian method.
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baconian method [(bay-koh-nee-uhn)]
a method of experimentation, created by francis bacon in the seventeenth century, that derives its conclusions from observed facts rather than from previous conclusions or theories.
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