Word: aristotelian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Russian-born professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, is that things in the real world do not fall into the neat, crisp categories defined by traditional set theory, like the set of even numbers or the set of left-handed baseball players. In standard Aristotelian logic, as in computer science, membership in a class or set is not a matter of degree. Either a number is even, or it is not. But this on-or-off, black-or- white, 0-or-1 approach falls apart when applied to many everyday classifications, like the set of beautiful...
...year had a kind of Aristotelian logic, the proportions of tragedy. Hope begot death, revolution begot counterrevolution...
Nineteen sixty-eight had a kind of Aristotelian logic, the proportions of tragedy. Hope begot death, revolution begot counterrevolution...
...always cherished the role of what he calls a "non grata in academe," preferring to communicate his message, largely through his books, to America at large. He has done so with such success that Michael Timpane, president of Columbia's Teachers College, calls Adler "the last great Aristotelian," that is, life master of deductive logic...
...drama of South Africa seems to be playing itself out with Aristotelian balance. There was a beginning, in the late 1940s, when the white minority government instituted apartheid, a crazy quilt of laws designed to restrict, presumably forever, the freedoms and aspirations of a black majority. The middle, the escalating restiveness and violence provoked by a system too rigid to bend, is now. And surely an end, whether it be awful or awesome, must come. Unlike such interminably troubled spots as Northern Ireland or the Middle East, South Africa generates each day one of the oldest questions to capture human...