Francis Bacon, initiator of modern heuristic method
Francis Bacon, initiator of modern heuristic method
Author(s): Teodore DimaSubject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН
Keywords: heuristic methodology; amplifying induction; induction by elimination; The New Organon; Praerogative instantiarum; the substitution method; the definition of heat; table 1; table 2; table 3; deduction and reduction; certainty and probability
Summary/Abstract: The goal of this study is to provide arguments for the idea that Francis Bacon initiated the first modern theoretical programme of a heuristic methodologist strategy. This strategy has been developed by modern science in order to investigate nature and formulate general enunciations on nomicity, causality, connection and spatio-temporality. Francis Bacon uses amplifying induction, induction by simple enumeration and especially induction by elimination. He thus initiates a new manner of thinking about the knowledge achieved in experience, of its reasonable interpretation and systematization.
Journal: Balkan Journal of Philosophy
- Issue Year: III/2011
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 163-170
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English
