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Definition of Idola
1. idolum [n] - See also: idolum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Idola
Literary usage of Idola
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Organon of Scripture: Or, The Inductive Method of Biblical Interpretation by James Sanford Lamar (1860)
"OE BACON'S idola. THE good effects of Lord Bacon's writings were due, ...
The author of the Novum Organum denominated the sources of error idola, ..."
2. A Grammar of Logic and Intellectual Philosophy, on Didactic Principles by Alexander Jamieson (1837)
"Prejudices are not improperly distinguished by the title of idola; ... The first
class, the idola tribus, are such Prejudices as beset the whole human ..."
3. Introduction to the Literature Of Europe in the Fifteenth,sixteenth and by Henry Hallam (1879)
"These are four in number ; idola tribus, to which from certain common weaknesses
of human nature we are universally liable; idola specus, ..."
4. Bacon's Novum Organum by Francis Bacon (1889)
"In introducing the idola theatri, Bacon uses the words ' At idola theatri innata
non sunt, ... These words point to a classification of the idola as innate, ..."
5. Introduction to the literature of Europe in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and by Henry Hallam (1854)
"These are four in number: idola tribus, to which from certain common ...
idola specus, which from peculiar dispositions and circumstances of individuals ..."
6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"If the treatise "Quod idola non dii sint" is by St. Cyprian (d. about 258) there
is no need of going beyond that date, for this treatise is based on the ..."
7. The Theory of Credit by Henry Dunning Macleod (1889)
"And many may wonder at a logician who is unable to perceive the difference between
an Independent Quantity and an Operation Contrast between the idola, ..."
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