Baconian theory

noun

1. the theory attributing the authorship of Shakespeare's plays to Francis Bacon.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Baconian theory¹

First recorded in 1870–75

Example Sentences

This theory, as foolish and as unsupported as the Baconian theory of Shakespeare, has been carelessly accepted, or at all events accepted as possible, by many good scholars who have never taken the trouble to look into the matter for themselves.

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He is known to me through his Baconian theory, and in that of course I have no confidence.

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What is your opinion of Ignatius Donnelly as a literary man irrespective of his Baconian theory?

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The Baconian theory of induction regarded the accumulation of facts and the derivation of general principles and laws from them as the true and fruitful method of science.

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Stratford-on-Avon, and the Baconian theory, 2, 166.

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