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CT False Idols (False Idols (Idols
remedy: true induction (Idols of the…
CT False Idols
False Idols
The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search after truth.
The syllogism is not applied to the first principles of sciences, and is applied in vain to intermediate axioms; being no match for the subtlety of nature. It commands assent therefore to the proposition, but does not take hold of the thin
The syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over - hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the superstructure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.
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But with far more subtlety does this mischief insinuate itself into philosophy and the sciences; in which the first conclusion colours and brings into conformity with itself all that come after, though far sounder and better.
Course Manual:
What in Plato’s myth of the cave is the truth? What kinds of idols does Bacon say there are? Try to give (contemporary) examples of each kind. What in the field of psychology most gets in the way of finding the truth?
The Cave Allegory
the best possible introduction to thinking about thinking
thoughts on the perception and thoughts of a prisoner being released, seeing the cave, seeing the outside world. Then about perception and thoughts when placed in his old situation and the reaction of the other prisoners to his insights
Will he not fancy that the shadows which he formerly saw are truer than the objects which are now shown to him?
Last of he will be able to see the sun, and not mere reflections of him in the water, but he will see him in his own proper place, and not in another; and he will contemplate him as he is
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false notions are the shadows in the cave
Idols of the Tribe = being situated in cave
Idols of the Market =~ a priori method of Peirce