---Obstacles to correct observation and inference from nature:
Idola Tribus - misconceptions via human folly.
Idola Specus - misconceptions of particular, individual circumstance or surrounding.
Idola Fori - misconceptions created through idle controversy in common speech and opinion.
Idola Theatri - misconceptions via traditions of fable and fiction.
---"The Novum Organum" - New Method (of Inductive Reasoning)
---Obstacles to correct observation and inference from nature:
Idola Tribus - misconceptions via human folly.
Idola Specus - misconceptions of particular, individual circumstance or surrounding.
Idola Fori - misconceptions created through idle controversy in common speech and opinion.
Idola Theatri - misconceptions via traditions of fable and fiction.
---"The Novum Organum" - New Method (of Inductive Reasoning)