The human understanding is subject to influence from the will and the emotions, a fact that creates a fanciful knowledge; man prefers to believe what he wants to be true.
– Francis Bacon, The New Organon (1620: Cambridge UP, 2000), p. 44
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The Limits of Reason
Posted in Epistemology, Francis Bacon on August 7, 2009 | 4 Comments »
