But significant as this is, we should not place too much weight on it by taking it as a manifesto, a considered announcement of a developed empiricism of a theoretical sort. 
Unlike Locke, Bacon does not argue for some theoretical view that all of our knowledge ultimately <tag "515648">derives</> from experience; unlike him, he does not go in for showing how sensory interaction with the world is necessary for, and results in, ideas and knowledge.   

