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THE author advocates the use of non–Aristotelian logic. This would mean abandoning the laws of identity, contradiction and excluded middle. He claims that such a revolution in thought would eliminate many ancient and modern fallacies, and introduce a new and better era in science, philosophy and social relations. In spite of some good points he fails to make out a case. His exposition is often rhetorical and cloudy; he uses indiscriminately all sorts of opinions, sober and speculative, good and bad; he shows no capacity for critical judgment. Altogether the new non–Aristotelian logic sounds very like the old sophistry that Aristotle's logic was designed to expose.
The Promise of Scientific Humanism Toward a Unification of Scientific, Religious, Social and Economic Thought
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Oliver L.
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By. Pp. xviii + 364. (New York: Oscar Piest, 1940.) 4 dollars.
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RITCHIE, A. The Promise of Scientific Humanism Toward a Unification of Scientific, Religious, Social and Economic Thought. Nature 148, 771 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148771d0
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