idols-of-the-mind
Bacon's taxonomy of four systematic distortions that corrupt human understanding: Tribe (species-wide biases), Cave (individual distortions from experience), Marketplace (errors from imprecise language), and Theatre (received doctrines accepted on authority).
Related ideas
Ideas connected to idols-of-the-mind.
Cognitive Biases
Bacon mapped the same territory 400 years before Kahneman — four categories of self-deception
Language Shapes ThoughtBacon's 'Idols of the Marketplace' — words that confuse instead of clarify — is this exact idea
FalsifiabilityBacon diagnosed the disease; Popper provided the test — both fight self-deception