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The End of the Enlightenment - Part Five
Bacon was the first one to really emphasize this notion of empiricism. He just thinks that observations are important, but they're also theory-laden. And Descartes, the great rationalist, said reason is the way in which we can get to the truth. Together you take what is good about these two, blend them together, and you get this Popperian view.