Baconian
- noun
- /bəˈkoʊniən/
- Formal
- As a dedicated researcher, she embraced the Baconian philosophy to guide her scientific inquiries.
Examples
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The Baconian approach encourages experimentation and observation to advance knowledge in science.
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The myth originates, I would guess, in the Baconian view of the scientist as a disinterested observer of nature.
Academic text (1991) -
He took the Baconian views of science to another level, further emphasizing the need for both empiricism and rationalist thinking.
Blog text (17) -
Contact with the wilderness has been replaced with the conquest of nature and its subjugation by science, further promoted by the Baconian/Cartesian notion of the animal as mindless.
Academic text (2002) -
This is because of the Baconian/Cartesian revolution in which science was subordinated to industry and engineering, and its object was reimagined as "mastery and control of the universe" rather than "knowledge for its own sake."
Blog text (19) -
Many modern scientists consider themselves Baconian because they prioritize empirical evidence in their work.
Synonyms
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A person who supports the idea that living things change over time by natural selection
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A person who studies or follows the ideas of Thomas Aquinas about God and how people should live
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A person who follows Michel Foucault's ideas about power and society
A person who supports Christiaan Huygens's ideas about light as a wave
A person who studies or loves the writing of the English writer Geoffrey Chaucer
Surface Forms
Morphology
Baconian = Bacon (transparent) = Bacon + ian
The noun meaning 'a follower/supporter of Bacon' is predictably formed from the name plus '-ian', a common way to form demonyms or adherent labels.
Etymology
Baconian as a noun names a person who follows the ideas of Francis Bacon. The word joins Bacon with -ian, which means 'related to' or 'belonging to', and because Bacon taught learning through observation and tests, a Baconian supports finding answers by evidence and experiment.