non-aristotelian
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.60 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not Aristotelian; as:
adj
Not Aristotelian; as:
Example Sentences
- "Again, it is necessary to stress that non-aristotelian does not mean anti-aristotelian, just as non-newtonian physics is not anti-newtonian physics. […] Given these revolutions in science and mathematics, Korzybski reasoned that it was long past time for a revolution in reason itself, time for a new manner of thought, and he chose non-aristotelian to complement the new non-newtonian science and the non-euclidean mathematics of the early 20th century. Had he been working a half century later, during the late 20th century period that saw the introduction of poststructuralism and postmodernism, not to mention the postindustrial, the postliterate, and the posthuman, he almost certainly would have chosen the term post-aristotelian instead; after all, his emphasis was on the need to move forward, not to eliminate the past. For Korzybski, general semantics was central to this effort, but at the same time his introduction to non-aristotelian systems opens up a new area of exploration that he left to others to continue, an area we might refer to as non-aristotelian studies."
Etymology
From non- + Aristotelian; the general semantics sense was coined by Alfred Korzybski in the 1920s or early 1930s; the dramaturgical sense was coined circa 1930 by Bertolt Brecht.