Word: aristotelian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Apologies. Like the U.S. Commission on Freedom of the Press (TIME, March 31, 1947), the 17-member Royal Commission was mainly composed of nonjournalists; it was headed by Sir David Ross, provost (now emeritus) of Oxford's Oriel College and a distinguished Aristotelian scholar. As Britain's press lords paraded before the commission, they made no apologies...
...this light, your quotation of Louis Armstrong's famous reply to the man who asked him to define [New Orleans] jazz, "Man, when you got to ask what is it, you'll never get to know," appears as a beautiful and proper non-Aristotelian rebuke to an asker of Aristotelian nonsense-question. What is jazz, indeed...
...point out a curious relationship between the two stories? Korzybski says that what's wrong with people with "Aristotelian orientations" is that they tend to build their attitudes and their lives on verbal definitions . . . His "non-Aristotelian" theory is directed toward getting people past their definitions and words, i.e., blasting a few holes in the verbal wall that stands between them and reality...
Alfred Korzybski has one burning conviction-that "in the old construction of language, you cannot talk sense." The reason is that because of their Aristotelian thinking habits, which he thinks outmoded, men do not properly evaluate the world they talk about; consequently, words have lost their accuracy as expressions of ideas, if they ever had any to begin with...
...Western cultures belong to the past because the assumptions behind them no longer square with scientific and hence philosophical truth. Indeed, they never did; Northrop says that the last system of thought that accounted coherently for all the facts of science known at the time was the Aristotelian system of St. Thomas Aquinas (circa...