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

Type of: national leader, philosopher, statesman, statesperson

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