Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans [no famous painter of the last century], opened the way for a new method in his Novum Organum :
See this molarity such example: the aphorism 49 of Book I:
The human mind is the impartial view, but is subject to the influence of the will and emotions, which creates a fantastic knowledge: the man thinks more easily you prefer to be true. Rejects, therefore, things difficult, due to their eagerness to investigate. Countless
[...] In short, are the ways, and sometimes imperceptible, in which emotions color and infect the understanding.
repeat:
more easily man believes what he prefers to be true.
So I say, is well organized: that is: a method. (And so, to Popper and beyond).
(And here, in Latin and English, the same 49-and-whole, that the translation is made a bit against the grain. A redropelo. A redropé: XLIX
Intellectus humanus luminis SICCI non est, sed recipit infusionem a voluntate et affectibus, id quod generat ad quod vult scientias: quod enim mavult homo verum esse, id potius credit. Rejicit itaque difficilia, ob inquirendi impatientiam; sobria, quia coarctant spem; altiora naturae, propter superstitionem; lumen experientiae, propter arrogantiam et fastum, ne videatur mens versari in vilibus et fluxis; paradoxa, propter opinionem vulgi; denique innumeris modis, iisque interdum imperceptibilibus, affectus intellectum imbuit et inficit.
XLIX
The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections; whence proceed sciences which may be called "sciences as one would." For what a man had rather were true he more readily believes. Therefore Difficult Things have rejects from impatience of research; sober Things, Because They narrow hope; The Deeper Things of nature, from superstition; the light of experience, from arrogance and pride, lest His Mind Should Be Occupied with seem to mean and Transitory Things; Things Not Commonly Believed, out of deference to the opinion of the vulgar. Numberless, in short, Are the Ways, and Sometimes imperceptible, in Which the affections color and infect the technical understanding.
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