Francis Bacon: The New Organon (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B000VDMB9O
Publish date: March 28th 2000
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pages no: 292
Edition language: English
In his zeal to challenge the Aristotelian teaching of his youth, Bacon swung to other extreme. Aristotle’s deductive reasoning had dominated for centuries before Bacon. Natural science was explored through the use of syllogisms based off premises arrived at by generalized observation. Once the pr...