It appears we have on this forum three distinct category of philosophies. Baconian, Aristotelian and Theorist.
E.A. Poe was recently mentioned in the truth, as befits A and B philosophy.
Listen to what Poe says about the Hog and the Ram Philosophy, and tell me if it be true or false according to your experience.
"No man dared utter a truth for which he felt himself indebted to his soul alone. It mattered not whether the truth was even demonstrably such; for the dogmatizing philosophers of that epoch regarded only the road by which it professed to have been attained. The end, with them, was a point of no moment whatever: — ‘the means!’ they vociferated — ‘let us look at the means!’ — and if, on scrutiny of the means, it was found to come neither under the category Hog, nor under the category Aries (which means ram), why then the savants went no farther, but, calling the thinker a fool and branding him a ‘theorist,’ would never, thenceforward, have anything to do either with him or with his truths". |
