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  2. Works by Francis Bacon - Wikipedia

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    Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, KC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author, and pioneer of the scientific method. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through ...

  3. Francis Bacon - Wikipedia

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    Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, [a] 1st Baron Verulam, PC (/ ˈ b eɪ k ən /; [5] 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I.

  4. Confirmation bias - Wikipedia

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    Francis Bacon Before psychological research on confirmation bias, the phenomenon had been observed throughout history. Beginning with the Greek historian Thucydides ( c. 460 BC – c. 395 BC ), who wrote of misguided reason in The Peloponnesian War ; "... for it is a habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use ...

  5. Baconian method - Wikipedia

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    Portrait of Francis Bacon. The Baconian method is the investigative method developed by Francis Bacon, one of the founders of modern science, and thus a first formulation of a modern scientific method. The method was put forward in Bacon's book Novum Organum (1620), or 'New Method', to replace the old methods put forward in Aristotle's Organon.

  6. Control (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Effortful control is a type of self-regulation. It is a broader construct than inhibitory control, and encompasses working memory and attention-shifting. [22] Effortful control works by allowing individuals the ability to start or stop behaviors they may or may not want to perform through attention management. [23]

  7. Self-control - Wikipedia

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    Ulysses and the Sirens by H.J. Draper (1909). Self-control is an aspect of inhibitory control, one of the core executive functions. [1] [2] Executive functions are cognitive processes that are necessary for regulating one's behavior in order to achieve specific goals.

  8. Inductivism - Wikipedia

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    Francis Bacon, articulating inductivism in England, is often falsely stereotyped as a naive inductivist. [11] [12] Crudely explained, the "Baconian model" advises to observe nature, propose a modest law that generalizes an observed pattern, confirm it by many observations, venture a modestly broader law, and confirm that, too, by many more observations, while discarding disconfirmed laws. [13]

  9. Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation - Wikipedia

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    Here, Deleuze remarks in the final preface of Francis Bacon that Bacon's art is "of a very special violence." [4]: x In saying this, he analyses the content of Bacon's paintings set on fields of color with little visual depth that make "use of spectacles of horror, crucifixions, prostheses and mutilations, monsters." [6]