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Bacon thinks that we should be aware of this tendency of the mind to project order onto the world even when there may be no order there. ... What Bacon says, though, is that we all do this. ... Bacon thinks we should become aware of how these world views shape and distort our own perceptions of the world so that we might be able to correct for it a bit. ...
As did Plato, Bacon believed that the human mind is bound; only he expresses it in terms of four causes of human mistruths (idols). ...
Plato, Mamonides, and Francis Bacon all escaped this bondage and all agree that the human intellect is far from perfect.
Approximate Word count = 1851 Approximate Pages = 7.4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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