SOURCE: "Modern Science and Non-Aristotelian Logic," in The Monist, Vol. XLVI, No. 2, July, 1936, pp. 299-317.

In the following essay, Reiser discusses Korzybski's formula for replacing Aristotelian reasoning with a system that repudiates the notion of identity common to Western logic.

It is generally recognized that we are living in a period of profound reorganization in human culture. There is a demand not only for practical readjustment in the social order, but there is now developing the belief that we need also a fundamental reconstruction of the theoretical foundations of science. A searching investigation would probably reveal that these two developments are not isolated manifestations, but phases of the same unitary phenomenon—the demand for a new mode of orientation.

The statement that we need a new mode of orientation to deal with the practical and theoretical difficulties which confront us is more radical than some might suppose. We...