Be prepared to cite examples of each and to explain how they qualify as examples of the category in question. In Bacon's picture, too, there is something deficient for the generation of the sort of science we need in the way in which practical artisans approach their task craftsmen who have been educated as apprentices, within the guild system. Go to the Introduction to Bacon. Go to Selections from Bacon's Novum Organum . Go to a discussion of Bacon's and Descartes' complementary departures from scholasticism in philosophy .
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