Revolutions are seldom solo efforts. Isaac Newton was the greatest scientist of his age and not one known for his false modesty, but even he had to admit, “If I have seen further it is by standing on ...

Last week 200 sworn enemies of Aristotelian logic gathered at the University of Denver for the Second American Congress on General Semantics. All disciples of Count Alfred Korzybski (founder of ...

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 ...

The Greek philosopher, who was born in 384 BCE, was the type of learner who examined rather than merely accepted any solutions. He mentored Alexander the Great, studied under Plato, and established ...

The most stunning fact I discovered in the many obituaries written this week about former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara was that he'd studied philosophy as an undergraduate at UC Berkeley.

When Aristotle and his predecessors devised their theories of logic and mathematics, they came up with the so-called Law of the Excluded Middle, which states that every proposition must either be true ...

Many universities and corporations are trying to change perceptions about the study of engineering, yet since 1983, the National Science Foundation has reported a steady decline in interest among high ...