According to Francis Bacon, the tendency to use language imprecisely was called
A) the idol of the marketplace.
B) the syllogism.
C) the syntactic fallacy.
D) general semantics.

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Francis Bacon referred to the misuse of language and the confusion it causes as the "idol of the marketplace," which is one of the four idols he described as obstacles to clear thinking.

According to Francis Bacon, the Tendency to Use Language Imprecisely