Sunday, March 1, 2009

Bacon's 4 Idols

Bacon's 4 idols are:
1 Of the tribe
2of the cave
3of the market place
4of the theater
Idols of the tribe have to do with the bias of human beings, how they jump to conclusions and tend not to accept anything new, they just keep with what they know instead of trying to understand what is true
Idols of the cave are creating biases against individuals in things like school or other educational systems, this is like the allegory of the cave.
idols of the Marketplace have to do with language created to share knowledge
Idols of the Theater have to do with understanding the world like how the christian welst listends to 4 of five Greek scholars