The research method of Francis Bacon

Abstract

The "method" and the set of problems that revolve around it, constituted one of the main slogans of reflection of many modern philosophers. The fact that the criterion of authority that had served as the basis of knowledge in the Middle Ages had begun to lose its gitimacy, made man look for another foundation that would justify and give security to knowledge, and he found it in the way it is obtained. The method thus stands as a guarantee of the truth of the knowledge obtained.