Francis Bacon

Thinkers1561 to 1626Philosopher and statesman

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In the Novum Organum he argued that knowledge should be built by induction from observation, rising step by step to general laws. His tables of presence, absence, and degree were a method for ruling out candidate causes by comparison, an early program for the experimental method.

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