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" According to Bacon, there are things in wherein the truth is hard to bare, thus the human mind resorts to information that are available to him; sometimes just assuming that the available information are the facts and reality. Bacon suggests that
"The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.
The philosophies of Francis Bacon were actually inspired and patterned from the thoughts and idealisms of Plato. Thus, "The Four Idols" can be found as an extension of Plato's "The Allegory of the Cave." Both suggest that the human mind is always exposed to fallacies and such fallacies can distort reality. Plato's and Bacon's work only prove that man should...
The main point of "The Four Idols" and "The Allegory of the Cave" is that knowledge and learning can be obtained from many ways, but the important thing to note is how intelligent the knowledge and learning is acquired. Finally, from "The Four Idols" and "The Allegory of the Cave," a reader can learn this important technique in learning: The term "knowledge" only comes to the sense of its real meaning only when the truth is established based on reality.
References
Bacon, Francis."The Four Idols." A World of Ideas. Ed. Lee A. Jacobus. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's
Plato, The Allegory of the Cave (Text)
http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/allegory.html
Allegory of the cave can be summed up in one single sentence. It symbolizes the place of perceptions in the pursuit of knowledge. Indeed, in a preamble to the actual relating of the allegory, Plato is involved in a discussion as to who can be considered a true philosophy. The discussion meanders around attempting to answer the following enigmas: Just because someone subscribes to a specific philosophy, does that make
The discrepancy between the ideal and the real and the difficulty of arriving at the truth through deduction and induction is something that everyone must grapple with who deals with the ethics of a profession, like accounting. "Prisoners may learn what a book is by their experience with shadows of books. But they would be mistaken if they thought that the word 'book' refers to something that any of them
Allegory of the Cave: Plato: Truth and Art Allegory of the cave is one of the most interesting, enlightening and insightful example given by Plato in his book The Republic to explain such vague concepts as knowledge and truth. It appears in form of dialogues between Socrates and Glaucon and they touch upon various important concepts in connection with learning and discovery. Two very vital subjects discussed are art and truth.
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