Sir Francis Bacon

1. 'Natures' would be a Baconian term for naturally occurring phenomenon, that can be transferred in to fact,axiom, or law using inductive reasoning.

2. Forms are the shape in which we see the natural phenomenon take when we apply the inductive reasoning to the phenomenon.

3. This is the Idea that people tend to believe in systems of regularity more than they should, just because it is easier to follow or come up with preconceived notions. This could be considered nationalism or nationalist bias.

4. The Cave refers to the individuals reasoning powers, or lack there of, due to personality types, likes and dislikes, nature (though he doesn't say this) or nurture (to a certain extent)


5.The Marketplace is like the idea of the tower of babel, the confusion that occurs in language from different directs, translations, and personal understanding. Also it has to do with the multitude of different languages spoken and written and things that are lost in translation.

6. The Theatre is the idea of misused political or philosophical doctrines that have made their way into modern mind. Bacon believes most of these doctrines are based on faulty pretenses and syllogisms, thus should be discarded as trash.

7. is a list of the testable phenomenon's presence in other things, I.E. if we were to test heat, we would then list all things in which heat occurs

8. Conversely this is a list in which the testable phenomenon doesn't occur, I.E. Heat does not occur in water. So on and so forth.

9. The table of degrees is used to to measure the frequency in which the testable phenomenon occurs in each event. Once we established the degree into which it is present we can than make the observed phenomenon and how it works a law. But it most cases we don't know how it works so we use it as a workable hypothesis until more evidence is provided.

10. The Baconian method consists of making a an observation of a phenomenon that we want to be tested, then we make a list of all the events in which the phenomenon occurs. After having our list of occurrences, we then make a list of all the events in which the phenomenon do not occur. Then we take in account the degrees in which the phenomenon occurs in the events, we can then come to a conclusion as to how and why based upon the degrees and occurences.

11.He found that Aristotle based all his conclusions on syllogisms, and not on observable evidence or at least observations that don't make as many assumptions (Ockham's Razor). Bacon also thought Aristotle was missing alot of Bacon.

12. The Baconian method and the Scientific method both rely on observable phenomenon in order to make a conclusion. The Baconian method doesn't rely on test though, it relies on known instances in which the phenomenon occurs. These "known" instances though could be wrong seeing as how most are just based on common knowlegde and not designed test in ordred to produce a result, being either for or against the hypothesis.