"Coleridge observes that all men are born Aristotelians……" — Jorge Luis Borges
"Coleridge observes that all men are born Aristotelians or Platonists. The latter feel that classes, orders, and genres arerealities; the former, that theyare generalizations. For the latter, language is nothing butan approximative set of symbols; for the former, it is the map of the universe. The Platonist knows that the universe is somehow a cosmos, an order; that order, for the Aristotelian, can be anerror or a fiction of our partial knowledge. Across thelatitudes and the epochs, the two immortal antagonists change their name and language: one is Parmenides, Plato, Spinoza, Kant, Francis Bradley; the other, Heraclitus,Aristotle, Locke, Hume, William James."
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Jorge Luis Borges
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