Inductivism is the traditional model of scientific method explained in 1620 by Francis Bacon, vowing to subvert allegedly traditional thinking. In Baconian model, a scientist observes nature, tentatively poses a modest axiom to generalize an observed pattern, confirms it by many observations, ventures a modestly broader axiom, and confirms that, t... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductivism
a philosophy that holds that scientific research is guided by the various observations and data produced by previous science experiments. In other words, that science progresses in a direction that has prior experimental data. Found on http://www.translationdirectory.com/glossaries/glossary131.htm