The Greatest Weakness in Bacon's Thinking Was His Failure

question 45

Multiple Choice

The greatest weakness in Bacon's thinking was his failure:

• A) to understand the value of applied science.
• B) to appreciate the scientific ideas of the scholastics.
• C) to understand the role of mathematics.
• D) to clarify his difficult and abstruse language and thought.

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