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 So, only true knowledge gives people real power and ensures their ability to change the face of the world; two human aspirations - for knowledge and power - find here their optimal resultant. This is the guiding idea of all Baconian philosophy, according to Farrington's marked characteristic, "the philosophy of industrial science". And here is one of the reasons for such a long popularity of his views. Like any radical reformer, Bacon paints the entire past in too gloomy tones, has a tendentious attitude to the present. Until now, the state of the sciences and mechanical arts (as he calls various technical achievements) was very bad. Of the twenty-five centuries, it is hardly possible to single out six favorable for their development. These are the eras of the Greek pre-Socratics, the ancient Romans and modern times. Everything else is sheer gaps in knowledge, at best a tiny movement, or even trampling in one place, chewing on the same speculative philosophy, rewriting the same from one book to another. Sometimes it does not even occur to Bacon that he may be wrong in relation to the true Aristotle, to the ARABIAN scientists, to those numerous mathematicians and natural scientists, whose works he en masse characterized as weak and insignificant[3].

Philosophy shows that everyone expresses his opinion in a deep and different way through this science. There are many examples of this philosophy?1 As Aristotle pointed out errors in logical reasoning, so Bacon wants to point out errors in empirical perceptions and cleanse true experience of harmful impurities. He does this in his famous teaching on idols- which misleads people. Francis Bacon supplements his own method of scientific knowledge. He bases it on a systematic experiment. In the process of cognition, Bacon urges to avoid accidental experience, because its generalizations can lead to particular ones that are not applicable in all cases, and sometimes to completely false results. In order to learn inductively the "causes" of this or that phenomenon, science, according to Bacon, must use the "enumeration" and "exclusion" of experimental data. The conclusions of the followers according to a deliberate, methodological system of experiments should be generalized using induction - that is, inferences from the particular to the general.

At least three ideological factors determined the formation and character of the new European philosophy - the revival of ancient values, religious reformation and the development of natural science. And the impact of all of them is clearly traced in the views of Bacon, the last major philosopher of the Renaissance and the pioneer of modern philosophy. His philosophy was a continuation of the naturalism of the Renaissance, which he at the same time freed from pantheism, mysticism and various superstitions. Continuation and at the same time its completion. He believed that over time this idea will become one of the constructive principles of all human life, which "will be completed by the fate of the human race, moreover, such that, perhaps, people, with the current state of affairs and minds, are not easy to comprehend and measure." In a sense, he was right.