A person who follows or advocates for the philosophical principles and methods of Francis Bacon.
From Bacon + -ist suffix, which denotes a person who practices or advocates a particular belief system. Common formation pattern for philosophical adherents.
Baconists in the 1600s were like the rebels of the intellectual world—they insisted on evidence and testing when everyone else just wanted to quote old books. This fundamentally changed how universities teach and how science actually works.
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