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| | A brief History of Secularism |
 | | Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was the principal advocate of the scientific method recognized today. |
 | | Like Vives, Aconzio, and Navarro, Bacon argued in ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING (1605), ". |
 | | Unfortunately, Bacon took pains to reject Carneades's theory of probability, but as a materialist he emphasized the importance of "an acquaintance with things," and, as later explained by Mill in his SYSTEM OF LOGIC (Harper, 1884, p.227), Bacon advocated a relatively sophisticated "eliminative induction" that was superior to induction by simple enumeration. |
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