Second Philosophy

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Second Philosophy is a component of Francis Bacon’s unfinished philosophical project that aimed to develop a new, empirically grounded method for acquiring knowledge about nature.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf component of a philosophical system
philosophical doctrine
aimsAt reform of natural philosophy
reliable knowledge of the natural world
contrastsWith First Philosophy (metaphysics in the Aristotelian tradition) NERFINISHED
developedBy Francis Bacon NERFINISHED
emphasizes careful interpretation of nature
inductive reasoning
systematic collection of data
focusesOn methodological foundations of natural science
study of nature
hasAlternativeName Secunda Philosophia NERFINISHED
hasAuthor Francis Bacon NERFINISHED
hasGoal development of a new method for acquiring knowledge about nature
hasKeyConcept empirical grounding of theory
rejection of premature generalization
stepwise ascent from particulars to axioms
systematic experimentation
hasLanguageOfOrigin Latin NERFINISHED
hasMethodologicalBasis empirical observation
experiment
hasStatus unfinished component of Bacon's system
historicalPeriod early modern philosophy
influencedBy Renaissance humanism NERFINISHED
critique of scholasticism
influences early modern scientific method
empiricism
opposes purely scholastic reasoning
uncritical reliance on Aristotelianism
partOf Francis Bacon's philosophical project
relatedTo Baconian method NERFINISHED
Novum Organum NERFINISHED
natural philosophy

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Instauratio Magna proposedPart Second Philosophy