Francis Bacon and the Pragmatic Theory of Forms

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1964

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Cameron, Evan Wm.

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A summary of Francis Bacon's ontology of nature followed by a pragmatic reading of his theory of 'Forms', concluding that Bacon construed the mark of a true form to be its usefulness (or, as he put it when insisting upon the necessity of usefulness to the very being of a form, 'These two directions, the one active and the other contemplative, are one and the same thing; and what in operation is most useful, that in knowledge is most true.').

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Anderson, F. H., Bacon, Francis, Craik, George L., Farrington, Benjamin, Induction, Naturalism, Ontology, Philosophy, Philosophy, History of, Pragmatism, Robert Leslie Ellis, Utilitarianism, Williams, Donald C., Platonism, Cameron, Evan

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