... as a tool for understanding nature. Instead, he proposes to conduct science by the method of "true induction" -- proposing a re asonable conclusion based on a set of thorough and deliberate experiments. Bacon's inductive reasoning is perhaps the main principle that separates him scientists of his times. Almost all of contemporary scientits, he tells us, are concerned with finding basic generalizations common to different scientific ... ...

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