Question

Francis Bacon was an early proponent of the scientific method and promoted the Baconian Method, a methodology for scientific inquiry. It states
A.
inherent forms only exist in conjunction with matter.
B.
that the spiritual world has subsistent forms separate from the material world.
C.
that the idea is the permanent reality that makes a thing what it is.
D.
one should be able to deduce by inductive reasoning the real nature of things.

Answer 1

D.

Bacon championed careful observation and inductive reasoning—building general laws from systematic experiments and data—rather than relying on a priori deductions from assumed forms or metaphysical essences.