Transcript Sir Francis bacon

SIR FRANCIS BACON
Sarah Haid
Tatianna Rolen
Brody Baggs
BACONIANISM
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First part: De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum (“Nine Books of the Dignity
and Advancement of Learning”)
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Second part: The Novum Orgarum or “New Organon” provides detailed
explanation and demonstration of the correct procedure for interpreting nature
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These two parts can be referred to as “Baconian” and “Baconianism” or the
philosophy and major ideas of Sir Francis Bacon
THREE STEPS TO LEARNING
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fantastical- collection of ideas that lack any real or substantial foundation,
relates to astrology, natural magic, and alchemy
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contentious- any intellectual endeavor in which the principal dim is not new
knowledge or deeper understanding but endless debate cherished for own sake
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delicate- concerned not with actual recovery of ancient texts or retrieval of
past know, but with revival of Ciceronian rhetorical embellishments and reproduction
of classical prose styles
4 IDOLS
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Idols of the tribe- false notions due to the human nature and common to all
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Idols of the cave- personal interpretations due to individual makeup or
dispositions
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Idols of the market place- the problem of language and the confusion of
words and terms
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Idols of the theatre- dogmas of philosophies that are received from wrong
“laws of demonstrations”
QUOTES
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Biographer Lore Eisley described Bacon’s desire to invent a new scientific
method, stating that Bacon, “More fully than any man of his time, entertained the
idea of the universe as a problem to be solved, examined, meditated upon, rather
than as an eternally fixed stage upon which man walked.”
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Bacon’s key insight: “Knowledge is power, and when embodied in the form of
new technical inventions and mechanical discoveries, it is the force that drives history.”
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Kant said he was, “Critique of Pure Reason”
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Dr. Johnson observed, “A dictionary of the English language might be
compiled from Bacon’s work alone.”
SCIENTIFIC METHOD
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Begin with “Tables of Investigation”
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Then “Table of Presence” (list of circumstances under which the event being
studied occurred)
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Then “The Table of Absence in Proximity” to identify negative occurrences
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The “Table of Comparison” which allows the observer to compare and
contrast the severity or degree of the event
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Preform short survey to help identify the possible cause of occurrence