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modes of analysis, and standards of validation. The result is confusion, and confusion was correctly identified by Francis Bacon four centuries ago as the most fatal of errors, which “occurs wherever argument or inference passes from one world of experience to another.”
Josh Goldman
It sounds like Bacon refers to disagreement in terminology leading to confusion, just as exclusively english speakers and french speakers wold confuse each other
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
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