Idola Tribus Fallacy - Real Reality

Using the discoveries of Sir Francis Bacon, let’s shed light on a few of the many ways thinkers lose touch with reality and how those ways work together to create extremely deceptive illusions. Sir Francis Bacon categorized all fallacies under four headings: idola tribus, idola theatri, idola fori, and idola specus. We know of only one way to avoid losing touch with reality, and this way is focusing on Jesus Christ, the Truth, the Reality.

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Idola Tribus Fallacy

The inner worldview, the desires of the innermost mind, the dullness and deception of the senses, and the interpretations of impressions become lenses that distort reality.

Worldviews are lenses that distort reality by acting as filters, and these filters add to reality and subtract from reality. This distortion and filtering controls our interpretations whenever we observe or experience reality:

Dullness and deception of the senses limit the impression.
The desires of the innermost mind create bias.
Bias acts as a powerful filter that adds to impressions and diminishes impressions.
This filtration process directs the interpretation.
The interpretation confirms the bias and fortifies the worldview.

The idola tribus fallacy involves many problems working together to deceive us all. Our senses aren’t perfect. We each have a worldview, and our worldviews deceive us, plus we each have desires, and our inner desires deceive us. It could happen to any one of us, so we could find ourselves out of touch with reality due to the idola tribus fallacy.

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