INSTRUCTION: GIVE THE DEFINITIONS OF THE FOLLOWING: Scientific Method --- a process for experimentation that is used to explore observations and answer questions, to discover cause and effect relationships by asking questions, carefully gathering and examining the evidence, and seeing if all the available information can be combined in to a logical answer. Sir Francis Bacon --
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INSTRUCTION: GIVE THE DEFINITIONS OF THE FOLLOWING:
Scientific Method --- a process for experimentation that is used to explore observations and answer questions, to discover cause and effect relationships by asking questions, carefully gathering and examining the evidence, and seeing if all the available information can be combined in to a logical answer.
Sir Francis Bacon --- In 1620, around the time that people first began to look through microscopes, an English politician named Sir Francis Bacon developed a method for philosophers to use in weighing the truthfulness of knowledge. While Bacon agreed with medieval thinkers that humans too often erred in interpreting what their five senses perceived, he also realized that people's sensory experiences provided the best possible means of making sense of the world. Because humans could incorrectly
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