Contraries, sub-contraries, contradictories; alternation and sub-alternation; Barbara, Celarent... all from Classical Logic. One may sneer at this, one may sniff at it all; but when one is reading texts like those of De Smet, one needs to UNDERSTAND what is going on...
We cannot abandon classical logic and classical metaphysics, if only to preserve our ability to READ....
Pooh-poohing is not a good philosophical stratagem, even though laughter is a postmodern technique.
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