Cameron, Evan Wm.2020-03-102020-03-101964https://hdl.handle.net/10315/37086A 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.').enAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 CanadaAnderson, F. H.Bacon, FrancisCraik, George L.Farrington, BenjaminInductionNaturalismOntologyPhilosophyPhilosophy, History ofPragmatismRobert Leslie EllisUtilitarianismWilliams, Donald C.PlatonismCameron, EvanArticle