Page 12 - GALIET UNAPHORISMS and the 4 Idols: Bacon IV

“For it is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding” (XLIII, 49). I daresay that true association is by intercourse. Intercourse and Discourse: a priori versus a posteriori. He does have two points: reason, word-bound, “wonderfully obstructs human understanding.” Primordial aphorism. Purging all idols leads to human understanding. Supreme nihilistic aphorism. Therefore, unempirical.
Although it is true that by purging all idols from our souls we can attain the highest form of human understanding and truth, it is impossible to attain this understanding without our senses for absolute truth cannot be attained by logos, logic or reason or by any persuasive form of man-made argument.
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