{"id":358,"date":"2016-12-14T20:54:29","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T20:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/?p=358"},"modified":"2016-12-14T20:54:29","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T20:54:29","slug":"francis-bacon-on-bullshit-beliefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/14\/francis-bacon-on-bullshit-beliefs\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis Bacon on bullshit beliefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Francis Bacon (1561-1626), in his <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Novum_Organum\">Novum Organum<\/a> (1620), classifies the sources of false beliefs (i.e. bullshit beliefs) into four categories or idols:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Idola_tribus\">idols of the tribe (idola tribus)<\/a>,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Idola_specus\">idols of the cave (idola specus)<\/a>,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Idola_fori\">idols of the market (idola fori)<\/a>, and<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Idola_theatri\">idols of the theater (idola theatri)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RITE1Qxiwnk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6ndi1eWtgbo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p>C. D. Broad, <a href=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/broad\/bacon.html\">The Philosophy of Francis Bacon<\/a>, 1926.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francis Bacon (1561-1626), in his Novum Organum (1620), classifies the sources of false beliefs (i.e. bullshit beliefs) into four categories or idols: idols of the tribe (idola tribus), idols of the cave (idola specus), idols of the market (idola fori), and idols of the theater (idola theatri). See also: and C. D. Broad, The Philosophy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/14\/francis-bacon-on-bullshit-beliefs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Francis Bacon on bullshit beliefs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,18,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bullshit-beliefs","category-bullshit-detection","category-escaping-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}