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...ancestors. The Dry Salvages (accented like assuages) is a group of rocks off Cape Ann, Mass. Little Gidding was a lyth-Century religious community established by Nicholas Ferrar. Each of the poems has not only its earthly-mystical locals but its season of the year and its Aristotelian element as well - which for which is not in every case clear. Of the first, the season seems to be spring, and the element air. Of the second: summer and earth. Of the third: fall and water. Of the fourth: "Winter spring" and fire...
Edwin Green, assistant to the editor of the Los Angeles Daily News, who displayed copies of his paper with stories labeled Propaganda, Verified, Not Verified. Said he: "Through . . . Aristotelian journalistic practices, the domestic press is ... training the nervous systems of the masses in animalistic reactions...
...book is lucid, ambitious, profound. It was inspired by science's discovery of more things in heaven & earth than were dreamt of in former philosophies. "The time is ripe for a new philosophy," says Philosopher Reiser, and he hopes its main characteristics will be 1) a non-Aristotelian logic, 2) a theory of emergent evolution...
...Aristotelian logic, Reiser says, has dominated Western thought for 2,000 years, confuses science and society by its omnipresent lingering. This logic is two-valued: a thing is either true or not true. Non-Aristotelian logic (which Bertrand Russell rejects) is many-valued, fills the chasm between true and not true with probabilities. A four-valued logic would permit: true, probably true, possibly true, not true. (The word "and" then acquires 14.348,907 distinct meanings.*) Such logic is not speculative nonsense but a tool urgently needed, for example, by atom-studying physicists. It is also vital in comprehending the relativity...
...13th Century, St. Thomas Aquinas erected a towering Gothic cathedral of thought with vaulting arches of metaphysics, flying buttresses of Aristotelian science, stained windows of Revelation. In his great study of medieval France, Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, Henry Adams sympathetically noted the judgment of Pope Leo XIII: "On the wings of St. Thomas's genius, human reason has reached the most sublime height it can probably ever attain...