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Jay McAniff of Aristotle says his firm relies on what is known as "permission-based marketing"--that is, it only uses information offered voluntarily, not the kind gained passively on the basis of "cookies" (click for Michael Kinsley's explanation of cookies).
Yes, that includes Campbell, but for every interview with someone like him, there is one with a Mortimer Adler, the philosopher who used Moyers' show to try to explain Aristotle.
This seems to me an ungracious snipe: The time spent watching Adler probably would have been spent mooing over Ally McBeal , not studying Aristotle.)
His best example of empiricism's limits was the (apocryphal) story of how, at the dawn of the Enlightenment, a scientist tried to establish the existence of the human soul "not by speculating on the Vital Principle and the Intrinsic Substance of the Soul, as described in Aristotle and the Church Fathers, but by weighing a condemned criminal before and after execution."
Aristotle had no trouble recognizing that dolphins were mammals, but it took the scientific community two millennia to agree.
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