Bacon already contains a critique of similarity, empirical criticism, concerning not the relations of order and equality between things, and types of mind and forms of illusions that affect the mind. It goes o some of the theory of quiproquo. Bacon does not dissipate similarity by the evidence and its rules. It shows how the similarity of tempting look disappear when approached, but again arise then, a little further. It's-idols. Idols of the cave and theatre make us believe that things like those what we have learned, with theories that we made up. Other the idols make us believe that there are similarities between things. "The human mind is naturally inclined to believe in things more order and similarity than is in them; and as nature is full of exceptions and differences, the mind is everywhere sees the harmony, harmony and the like. Hence the fiction that all the heavenly bodies describe its motion in perfect circles"; these are idols of a sort, spontaneous fictions of the mind, join them - as effects and sometimes causes confusion in the -- language: one and the same name applies equally to things of a different nature. It idols of the market<$F F. Bacon. Novum organum, Paris, 1847, liv. I, p. 111, 119, * 45, * 55.>. Only the caution of the mind can dissipate them, if the mind refuses haste and from their natural levity, to become "insightful" and to perceive at last a genuine difference nature.
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Bacon already contains a critique of similarity, empirical
criticism, concerning not the relations of order and equality between
things, and types of mind and forms of illusions that affect the mind. It
goes o some of the theory of quiproquo. Bacon does not dissipate similarity
by the evidence and its rules. It shows how
the similarity of tempting look disappear when approached, but again
arise then, a little further. It's-idols. Idols of the cave and
theatre make us believe that things like those
what we have learned, with theories that we made up. Other
the idols make us believe that there are similarities between
things. "The human mind is naturally inclined to believe in
things more order and similarity than is in them; and
as nature is full of exceptions and differences, the mind is everywhere
sees the harmony, harmony and the like. Hence the fiction that all
the heavenly bodies describe its motion in perfect circles";
these are idols of a sort, spontaneous fictions of the mind, join them
- as effects and sometimes causes confusion in the --
language: one and the same name applies equally to things
of a different nature. It idols of the market<$F F. Bacon. Novum organum,
Paris, 1847, liv. I, p. 111, 119, * 45, * 55.>. Only
the caution of the mind can dissipate them, if the mind refuses
haste and from their natural levity, to become
"insightful" and to perceive at last a genuine difference
nature.
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