BACON BITTS!!!!!

Francis Bacon provided the world with the scientific method. His heavy belief in experimentation and observation led to his scientific knowledge. Francis Bacon was not interested in scholasticism which had dominated the European education in universities at the time. These students of scholasticism would spend their time just pondering about works of Aristotle and making syllogistic arguments. They would not put much effort into observing the world around. Bacon strictly believed that the church and science could not go together and that led him to ultimately taking away the church's power to educate. Bacon wanted to transform the church because the committed idolatry according to him.

FOUR IDOLS

-Idols of the tribe are certain characteristics that everyone shares. These usually contain the tendency of our senses to deceive us about what is really there, our inclination to wishful thinking, and our hasty generalizing tendencies before a careful investigative work has been done.

-Idols of the cave are conceptions or doctrines which vary from person to person and are usually result of preconditioned system of every individual, comprising education, custom, or accidental or contingent experiences.

- Idols of the marketplace are false conceptions which arise from interactions between men, usually through language. The tendency to use language too casually and imprecisely can cause problems in inductive reasoning.

-Idols of the theatre are prejudices from received or traditional philosophical systems. The theories and dogmas by which we are already familiar with can possibly lead us away from investigating for the truth.