Francis Bacon was one of the seventeenth century's leading advocates for the empirical method. What is the empirical method?

A. A method of inquiry that combines inductive reasoning with scientific experimentation.
B. A method of inquiry that combines deductive reasoning with scientific experimentation.
C. A method of inquiry that prioritizes inductive reasoning over scientific experimentation.
D. A method of inquiry that prioritizes scientific experimentation over inductive reasoning.


Answer: A

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