What are, if any, the contemporary names for each of Francis Bacon's idola and/or Roger Bacon's offendicula?
His famous 4-part division of "idols" divides them according to their origins rather than what they actually are. That particular division hasn't been found terribly useful, and I don't think there are contemporary names for his classes.
(They are: "idols of the tribe", meaning errors common to humankind, which is what he means by the "tribe"; "idols of the cave", meaning errors idiosyncratic to particular individuals, each conceived as inhabiting his own private cave; "idols of the marketplace", meaning err...
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