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In Francis Bacon: The idols of the mind
…invented the metaphor of “idol” to refer to such causes of human error.
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In idol
In philosophy, the word can mean a prejudice of some kind that hinders clear thought. It was used in this sense by Giordano Bruno and adopted from him by Sir Francis Bacon, who in a celebrated passage of his Novum Organum distinguished four kinds of idol, namely: (1)…
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