behavior. This will become clearer as we proceed; it will appear that even the most desacralized existence still preserves traces of a religious valorization of the world. (p. 23) The method of the twentieth century is to use not single but multiple models for experimental exploration—the technique of the suspended judgment. * William Ivins, Jr., in Prints and Visual Communication , stresses (p. 63) how natural it is in the world of the written word to move towards a merely nominalist position such as no nonliterate man could dream of: . . . Plato’s Ideas and Aristotle’s forms, essences, and definitions, are specimens of this transference of reality