Synopsis:
- "Idols" keep humankind from knowing more than it could
- Idols of the Tribe: distortions due to the limitations of the human mind
- Idols of the Cave: distortions due to education
- Idots of the Marketplace:distortions due to language
- Idols of the Theatre: distortions due to ideologies, philosophies, etc
- Truth must be found via objective, unbiased, empirical observation, and inductive accumulation of evidence
- Induction vs deduction
- Knowledge is power
- Goal of science is to control the world ("how to command nature itself"), i.e. technology
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