Francis Bacon and the Scientific Method By : Ahmed Samy El-bahrawy
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| 4 Bacon's negative approach Bacon identifies the following negative side elements as idols or illusions 1 . Fantasies of sex It expresses the mistakes that man falls into that are interesting by his human nature, such as his tendency to rush to pass judgments that are not justified by premises, and his natural tendency to accept ideas just because they coincide with his passion, or satisfy his whim, or fill in his life a need, or fulfill him. A person often chooses evidence that supports his idea because he is inclined to it, and overlooks other evidence that contradicts it. Bacon explains the story of a man who underestimated the effect of vows in fulfilling people’s demands, so they took him to a temple and showed him many paintings that their owners hung on the walls of the temple in recognition of their deliverance from drowning, in response to the vows of light, and he was told Do you not know after this that vows Can the demands be met? But he said in wisdom and sarcasm But where do I find the paintings of those who made vows, seeking to escape from drowning, and with this the sea swallowed their corpses without heeding their vows However, an English doctor noticed at the end of the last century that leprosy was rampant in a town in Norway whose people could hardly live on fish. He said that the disease was caused by eating fish Many people shared this naive theory, and this hasty doctor and his followers forgot that leprosy often affects those who eat fish only sparingly, and that often harbor dwellers who eat fish so much that fish are almost their only food. This defect inherent in the nature of the human race often ends with believing in superstitions and accepting the validity of illusions. If one or more times you believe a fortunetellers prophecy, the person hastened to believe it after that, ignoring the times when this fortuneteller is proven to belying The owls croak, so it is agreed that a catastrophe will fall on the impact of their croaks, so the naive person takes the initiative to believe that the owl’s croak portends disaster without taking into account the dozens of times this croak is heard, without any evil followed Download 1.12 Mb. Share with your friends:
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