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Back in the Golden Age of Science Fiction seventy-something years ago there was a novel everyone read, title The World of Null-A. It was about a future planet Earth that had moved on from simple Aristotelean logic to something more subtle. So the A there stood for Aristotle. The author, A. E. Van Vogt, was actually promoting a trendy philosophical system called General Semantics. This was one of those pseudoscientific fads that were popular in the mid-20th century, like William Sheldon s body-typing, Wilhelm Reich s theory of orgone energy, Immanuel Velikovsky s colliding planets, or J.B. Rhine s parapsychology. I m a bit surprised to see that the Institute of General Semantics is still around seventy years later. A bit surprised, but only a bit; these fads never disappear completely. In New York City you can still find people practicing Freudian psychoanalysis. I bet there s a Velikovsky discussion group active on the Upper West Side somewhere. ....