The National Science Fair

The Novum Organum Method

In the workmanship Novum Organum, initially, Bacon was worried about (dolos), analysis of false slight knowledge that would be these responsible analyses for errors committed for science or for the men who said to make science, this starts to be one of the aspects most fascinating and permanent interest in the Bacon philosophy, where it presents a new method of research, disdaining the silogism of Aristotle. The search of the law considers thus a method of induction for the examination of the facts conducts that them. The Bacon method had for objective to constitute a new way to study the natural phenomena. According to proper Bacon, the discovery of true facts does not depend on the aristotelian silogstico reasoning but on comment and experimentation regulated for the inductive reasoning. The true knowledge is resulted of the agreement and the variation of the phenomena that, if duly observed, present the real cause of the phenomena. For this, however, it said Bacon, being necessary to describe in detailed way the facts observed for, after that, collating them with three boards that will discipline the inductive method.

2. The WORKMANSHIP As Bacon were necessary to long for a progress of knowing, clamava thus for a total change of the human knowledge. In its workmanship ' ' The Novum Organum' ' , it starts for criticizing the philosophy and the practical results defended by scholastic philosophers, for Bacon although these philosophers to possess strong intelligences, Bacon compared them it spiders that weaveeed teias wonderful, but that they entirely remain other people’s to the reality. For Bacon the true philosopher would have to be as the bee, that works in the systematic accumulation of knowledge. The fact standed out constantly of that, until its time, the previous philosophers did not tread the way of a operative science, in benefit of the man, considered then to technical examine the causes of this error to arrive itself at the correct knowledge of the nature.