You Can't Purge the Idols

The idea is we are striving for objective knowledge, and we need to just get out of our own waye. I thought maybe we could remind ourselves what francis bacon had to say about that. We had thesepoor idols, the idols of the tribe, when we think mans sense is falsely asserted to be the standard of things,. The idols of the den which can intercept and corrupt the light of nature. So, in other words, language can warp our thinking. Lastly, the idols that have crept into men's minds from various dogmas ond peculiar systems of philosophy he calls the idol of the theatre.