Francis Bacon's Theory Of Conductivism

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Essentially this theory states that a theory, once the hypothesis has been made, should go through rounds where the scientist must try to prove the hypothesis false, or null. If the scientist is unable to do so, then the theory must be true.
Around the 1620s, Francis Bacon is said to have created the theory of Inductivism. According to this theory, a researcher will form a hypotheses upon making certain observations of the patterns in the environment.
This sentence was wrongly translated to the phrase that gained more popularity than the correct translation: “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts”. He would often get irritated by this translation and instruct his students to replace “greater” with “other” as it was “not a principle

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