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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