Abstract:
Sir Francis Bacon, in Book II of his Novum Organum (The New Organon; 1620) states “Truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion.” This famous epithet describes the idea that we understand the world by imposing conceptual structure upon the confusion of data we receive. Our mistakes in doing so eventually lead us to a deeper understanding. Staying with the confusion will not, by itself, bring about new insights. ...