Astounding Science Fiction, British Edition, December 1955 — page 130: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

re 128 ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION or “‘never”—a Truth is an Eternal and Absolute and Unlimited Truth. A Good Thing is an Unlimited Absolute. And the formal cultural logic is based on those absolute terms “all” and “always” and so on. If you try setting up a i ape on “Most men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore... eh. . . well, maybe he’s mortal too, huh?” It doesn’t have the clean-cut suttatying inevitable assurance of a classical syllogism, does it? Unfortunately, the universe is not Euclidean, and there are no absolute and unlimited truths so far discovered. But Aristotelian logic is the fuel on which fanatics feed—and the fuel is guaranteed them by the cultural approval of the Aristotelian logic system. Kingsbury’s article contains part of the answer, though. Actually, even a fanatic has some consciousness of limitation. If, instead of trying to force him to acknowledge limitation, you take his idea over, and extend it farther than even he can stomach .. . he will call you a fanatic, insist that there must be a limitation on the idea. Once the fanatic himself has insisted there is a limitation on even his own pet idea—he’s gone beyond logic to rationality. From there on, in his struggle to make you limit your apparent overenthusiasm, he will be drawing limitation lines on his own ideas. If anyone can name any tas idea statement that has an absolute and unlimited invariant validity . . . P’'d love to throw that into the magazine for discussion! THE EDITOR. No wonder our Martian friend looks pleased ! . . . HE KNOWS THAT FOR THE NEXT TWELVE MONTHS HiS copy oF ASTOUNDING WILL ARRIVE EACH MONTH BY POST WITHOUT ANY TROUBLE OR FUSS, A WHOLE YEAR OF REABING PLEASURE ap CAN BE YOURS BY TAKING QUT A pe ee at SUBSCRIPTION TO ASTOUNDING. tion ahtantel Howe” in the SIMPLY COMPLETE THE ATTACHED COUPON ebruary 1955 issue of ASF, AND MAIL IT TO-DAY— @ i Sn aan ee ene en a ren res Ce rare ree eee ae te a Se POU HIE SRI i 50 shasvessssstinc orscaassbnantsvctss ascecpipteamstcieseiibaliody tasbisnesoetesdtoges or ATLAS PUBLISHING & DISTRIBUTING CO. LTD., 18 Bride Lane, London, E.C.4 strike out whichever is inapp.icadie , | { , Enclosed is my subscription for... one year—£1/.. . six months-10/- | i ,t ASTOUNDING Science Fiction TOES TRG dee Ia URL Sateen | tee ena | | Nien aR a ae Pe EAE RS Ee Ee AO RRS RAP BRE OEER ET WG COMMENCING WIP .reccccsses issue. — eee <—= <comichooksscom