Who developed the use of inductive reasoning which is the process of looking at specific facts and making a rule or general principle based on those facts. Thought that scientists should rely on their own observations to explain nature? 🐢

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Who developed the use of inductive reasoning which is the process of looking at specific facts and making a rule or general principle based on those facts. Thought that scientists should rely on their own observations to explain nature?

A	Johannes Kepler
B	Galileo Galilei
C	Rene Descartes
D	Francis Bacon

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Inductive reasoning is at the heart of what is now called the “scientific method.” In European culture, this approach was developed mainly by Francis Bacon (1561-1626), a British scholar.

Detailed explanation-2: -In stark contrast to deductive reasoning, which had dominated science since the days of Aristotle, Bacon introduced inductive methodology-testing and refining hypotheses by observing, measuring, and experimenting.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Baconian Method/Scientific Method “The Baconian method is the investigative method developed by Sir Francis Bacon, one of the founders of modern science, and thus a first formulation of a modern scientific method.

Detailed explanation-4: -Francis Bacon is most famous for his philosophy of science. He argued that scientific knowledge is obtained after making observations and then utilizing inductive reasoning to interpret the observations. Bacon also argued that controlled scientific experimentation is essential for understanding nature.

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