How Well Do You Know Francis Bacon?

Which college was Francis Bacon sent to by his mother at age 12?

Which of the following titles did Bacon hold throughout his political career? (Choose all that apply)

Which of the following was NOT a work written by Francis Bacon?

This era, also known as the Age of Reason, was heavily based on scientific discovery and included Bacon and his contemporaries.

Bacon warned against this, which was the "uncritical acceptance of the idea that sense perceptions constitute reality."

Bacon's definition of rhetoric was: "applying reason to imagination for the better moving of the will."

Bacon was concerned with how the mind ____

Bacon divided knowledge into philosophy and ____.

Bacon divided philosophy into theoretical and _____ inquiry.

Bacon divided theoretical inquiry into metaphysics and ____.

These processes of the mind, proposed by Bacon, are the basis of faculty psychology.

According to Bacon, perception is infallible and mental operations are neutral.

One of the five functions, this is the "ability to see regularities, analyze, and generalize."

One of the five functions, this is the "storehouse of experiences, events, and concrete facts."

One of the five functions, this is the function that "appreciates fiction."

"There may be ____ truth, but knowing is _____."

According to Bacon, reason and senses are warped by _____.

Would Bacon agree with Plato's claim that rhetoric is a distortion of the truth?

Bacon believed that the true enemy was not rhetoric, but ____.

Bacon divided the operations of intellect into four arts. Select those four from the list below.

According to Bacon, rhetoric links morality and reason.

Bacon supported greater power for the _____ branch.

What philosopher did Bacon borrow his concept of binary opposition from?

Bacon agreed with the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno on his metaphor that compared dialectic and rhetoric to _____.

Bacon located the humanities within the related contexts of scientific discovery and invention, and _____.

Bacon's educational reform challenged the _____, who adhered to the cloistered ideal of the medieval university.

Bacon's educational reform challenged the _____, who slavishly imitated models of classical rhetoric for imaginary audiences in make-believe situations.

Bacon believed that true education should enhance professions to make them more _____. (choose all that apply)

Bacon believed that it was a waste of time to stress the rhetorical underpinnings of organizational and disciplinary discourse.

Bacon believed that true education should study media and the technology of science and communication to _____.

Bacon referred to his push for true knowledge and the restoration of true knowledge after "centuries of obscurity and neglect" as ____.

Similar to maxims, Bacon was often associated with these, which force a writer to distill abstract information into concrete principles and to resist the kind of thinking that shuts down inquiring before one examines the facts.

These four aspects of human thought were believed, by Bacon, to confound human understanding.

Bacon believed that we could achieve certainty through an inductive method of reasoning that bases knowledge on _____.

Bacon exhibited a sort of _____ towards imitative, poetic qualities of language.

Bacon had issue with the "feigned history" of poetry because it places satisfaction of the imagination higher than _____.

This "idol" represents the self-important notion that the individual is the measure of all things.

This "idol" represents the recognition that each mind thinks in different and peculiar ways.

This "idol" is created by words which obstruct human understanding and "lead men away in numberless empty controversies and idle fancies.

This "idol" focuses on the plurality of systems of knowledge that a person can find.

Bacon wanted to develop a system of notes that did not rely on words for transmission of knowledge.

Bacon was an early advocate for the connection between useful knowledge and ____.

Bacon thought that the ultimate goal of science was to _____.

"Useful knowledge is the link between science and _____."

Bacon did not agree with the current goals of ____, and thought that it should be directed towards achieving improvements in the well-being of humanity.