sir francis bacon

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sir francis bacon - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Sir Francis Bacon
      n 1: English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British
           empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626) [syn:
           Bacon, Francis Bacon, Sir Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam
           , 1st Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans]