Are the four Baconian idols still alive in demography?
In this paper, we examine the four Idols that beset human minds according to Francis Bacon's Novum Organum (1620). These are: Idols of the Tribe - false assertions resulting from the belief that «the sense of man is the measure of things»; Idols of the Cave - peculiar to the individual people;...
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| Language: | English |
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2014-10.
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