Traditional Logic is the science of the function of reason, and it has been neglected for purposes that some suspect have little to do with scientific conviction. Be that as it may, there are now very few people indeed within the academic ambience who are unaware of the fact that the proliferating fashions of post Renaissance Shibboleth philosophies have finally degraded into homogeneous irrelevance; where even the authority to describe the very science has deserted its philosophers. In these shadowlands the only certainty allowed is that future generations must never be freed to pursue "certainty".

It is this political folly, born of a mixture of ignorance, fear (and downright intolerance in not a few cases) which drives certain parties to accommodate any wild sophistry in order to keep students wrapped in the bleak sleep of reason; left blithely unaware that certainty, if not ultimately attainable, is the one and only true reason for man's being. Without it common sense is gone and objectivity a pipe-dream. "Ah, a man's reach should exceed his grasp or what's a heaven for?"

It is also everywhere whispered into young ears that such Tyrants as Hitler and Stalin were the products of "certainty"; as though the towering insolence of their brute political ideology could be confused with the sane processes of the human intellect; whose finest exponents included Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Was Aristotle's heartbreak over the cruelty of his pupil Alexander the sign of an opinionated mass murderer? Was Plato's refusal to do evil under any provocation whatsoever the mark of an implacably convinced manager of genocide? Was Thomas Aquinas, the gentle Dominican, ever less than a saint?

Look closely at the high priests upon whose "philosophies" the monsters of this bloody century have strutted ... Comte, Hegel, Marx. Of this you may be sure; none of them was trained in formal logic, nor, I should imagine, were many of their anonymous acolytes still comfortably ensconced in the World's major seats of learning.
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