carefully-grounded

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But his attempt to elicit anything positive out of them breaks down, or ends at best in divinations and guesses, sometimes as in connecting Heat and Motion very near to later and more carefully-grounded theories, but always unverified. He had a radically false and mechanical conception, though in words he earnestly disclaims it, of the way to deal with the facts of nature.

R. W. (Richard William) Church - Bacon