Francis Bacon and the Pragmatic Theory of Forms

Philosophical Forum 5 (4):592 (1974)
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A summary of Francis Bacon's ontology of nature followed by a pragmatic reading of his theory of 'Forms', concluding that Bacon construed the mark of a true form to be its usefulness.

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