Visual Fusion - A Path Out of Verbal Confusion
This is an exercise in creating visual correspondences with verbal precepts or concepts. The example is drawn from a quote by Francis Bacon: “For myself, I found that I was fitted for nothing so well as for the study of Truth; as having a mind nimble and versatile enough to catch the resemblances of things and at the same time steady enough to fix and distinguish their subtler differences; as being gifted by nature with desire to seek, patience to doubt, fondness to meditate, slowness to assert, readiness to consider, carefulness to dispose and set in order; and as being a man that neither affects what is new nor admires what is old, and that hates every kind of imposture. So I thought my Nature had a kind of familiarity and Relationship with Truth.” Francis Bacon "Of the Interpretation of Nature" 1603-4 This exercise examines the 6 principles of truth from the preceding quote by Francis Bacon; i.e. : As being gifted by Nature with: 1. Desire to seek 2. Patience to Doubt 3. Fondness to Meditate 4. Slowness to assert 5. Readiness to consider 6. Carefulness to dispose and set in order These six precepts are considered in relation to the 6 X 6 Rule; or what are sometimes called the 6 questions of journalism. Finally, these 6 principles are fused into 3 new principles. by considering a middle term between each pair.
