From the Latin for "to lead", this method that goes from specific to general was the basis of Bacon's scientific method
Francis Bacon, the first philosopher of modern science: A non ... [PAR] The method that Bacon claims to have discovered is the dream-method of a .... 
without having properly consulted experience as the basis of his decisions ... will 
make the process of going from the particular to the general a smooth, .... No 
amount of observation, negation and exclusion is likely to lead to such a 
hypothesis.