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  • All the problems of woodland cookery are best saved by the baconian method.

    Days Off And Other Digressions Henry Van Dyke 1892

  • If the critic be both a pragmatist and a baconian, he will in his capacity of pragmatist see plain that the workings of my opinion, I being who I am, make it perfectly true for me, while in his capacity of baconian he still believes that Shakespeare never wrote the plays in question.

    Meaning of Truth William James 1876

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