Korzybski, Alfred - Oliver L. Reiser (essay date 1936)
Oliver L. Reiser (essay date 1936)
SOURCE: "Modern Science and Non-Aristotelian Logic," in The Monist, Vol. XLVI, No. 2, July, 1936, pp. 299-317.
[In the following essay, Reiser discusses Korzybski's formula for replacing Aristotelian reasoning with a system that repudiates the notion of identity common to Western logic.]
It is generally recognized that we are living in a period of profound reorganization in human culture. There is a demand not only for practical readjustment in the social order, but there is now developing the belief that we need also a fundamental reconstruction of the theoretical foundations of science. A searching investigation would probably reveal that these two developments are not isolated manifestations, but phases of the same unitary phenomenon—the demand for a new mode of orientation.
The statement that we need a new mode of orientation to deal with the practical and theoretical difficulties which...
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