
Ep 165: Knowledge and Ignorance Part 5
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Poplar's Art and Illusion - Part 11
Poplar: The idea of truthfulness of nature, which I believe can be discerned in bacon, derives from the Greeks. After Bacon and under his influence, the idea that nature is divine and truthful continues to play a major role,. Not only in the history of philosophy, of science, and of politics, but also in that of the visual arts. This may be seen, for example, from constables, most interesting theories on nature, veracity, prejudice, and convention quoted in E. H. Gombrich Art and Illusion.
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