Francis Bacon and the Scientific Method By : Ahmed Samy El-bahrawy
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| 3. Market delusions It expresses the errors that arise from the ambiguity of language as a tool for understanding and expressing ideas. It is known that the emergence of words in any society is due to its practical needs and its scientific conceptions, but these words quickly control people’s perception of things. The salvation from this is to define the meanings of the words and know their connotations precisely - as Socrates indicated in his discussion of the Sophist position. 4. Theater Illusions It is an expression of the mistakes that man consciously falls into because of his acceptance of the views of the philosophers and thinkers who aroused his admiration. The philosophical doctrines that he received from the predecessors are similar to plays that refer to factors that created their authors and are not from reality in anything, and the evil of the matter is that when a person believes in the validity of an opinion he received from others, after which he was unable to abandon it when it was proven to him to be false One of the clearest examples is that Aristotle believed that if we threw two bodies of different weights from a high place, the heaviest reached the earth before the lighter, and the world after him believed in this a granted issue for about twenty centuries. Galileo A professor at Pisa University climbed the university tower and conducted in front of a group of its professors an experiment that proves It invalidated this claim, and threw two bodies of different weights - after the air was emptied, which affects the speed of their fall. Both bodies fell at the same time He proved by this that the difference in the speed of the fall is due to the resistance of the air and not to the difference in the weight of the bodies - but the witnesses of the experiment from the scientists denied it, based on the fact that Aristotle had said otherwise, but they reprimanded Galileo, because he thought about research on a topic previously treated by Aristotle and expressed an opinion on it Galileo was forced to leave his post at his university. Galileo invented the telescope (the telescope that brings close to the far) and saw with it freckles on the face of the sun, and showed it to other scholars. Some of them said I searched in Aristotle’s books and did not find in them anything that proves the existence of this freckle. They call it a telescope There are many examples of this. These are the idols that lead people in their daily lives, and researchers in their scientific studies, to fall into error, obscuring the facts and dragging them into the abyss of error. Judgment on a subject before we have its justifications, thus we avoid the charms of misguidance from the beginning. |