| feature of Bacon's epistemology is
| that it rests upon a single method,
| which is INDUCTION... It must help
| the understanding on its way toward
| truth... Thus, true knowledge will go
| from a lower certainty to a higher
| liberty and from a lower liberty to a
| higher certainty, and so on. This
| rule is the basic principle of
| Bacon's theory of science; prepared
| in the natural and experimental
| history, determining the relationship
| between the tables of presence, it
| governs the induction of axioms and
| the abstraction of notions and
| ordains the divisions of sciences
| within the general system of
| knowledge. lt is well known that this
| rule of invention originates in
| Ramus's methodology and, more
| formerly, in Aristotle's POSTERIOR
| ANALYTICS. To characterize the nature
| of the premises required for the
| foundation of true demonstrations,
| Aristotle had set down three
| criteria: the predicate must be true
| in every instance of its subject; it
| must be part of the essential nature
| of the subject; and it must be
| universal, that is, related to the