Poetic and Francis Bacon's Ambivalence toward Language [microform] / Paula Tompkins Pribble
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- 5479420
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- Pribble, Paula Tompkins
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1986
- 15 p.
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Just as rhetoric is a way of knowing, so is poetic, both of which, for Francis Bacon, produce false knowledge. But Bacon is not entirely negative. When the poetic elements of language are used in strategic and public communication, like the scholarly communication Bacon attempts to reform, poetic and rhetoric work together to create a plurality of knowledge about human experience--the crux of Bacon's ambivalence. In the "Novum Organum" he classifies four types of idols or false notions that confound human understanding--idols of the tribe, the cave, the market-place, and the theater. Bacon believes that the mind is attracted to these fancies because human understanding is likely to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. To insure the communication of true knowledge, Bacon proposes to reform human thought with a new inductive method of reasoning that bases knowledge on sense perception, thereby achieving certainty. Yet, a tension exists between, on the one hand, his desire to restrict the imitative capacity of language--poetic--to words that represent actual sense perception and, on the other hand, the successful use of language in communication. Bacon's consciousness of his ambivalence toward the poetic causes him to err on the side of logic and reason. (Twenty-eight footnotes are appended.) (NKA)
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- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Speech Communication Association (72nd, Chicago, IL, November 13-16, 1986).
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