Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/08756_Field_TCGG T521.txt

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extended the boundaries of literature, complained bitterly that
boys should have to comb through the divisions and
distinctions of Peter of Spain.

     The point of all this is that the drive to deal spatially and
geometrically with words and logic, while useful as an art of
memory, proved cul de sac  in philosophy. It needed the
mathematical symbolism we have devised today. But it did
contribute directly to the spirit of quantification that expressed
itself in the mechanization of writing and what followed long
before Gutenberg, “the advance in quantification which
medieval logic exhibits is one of the chief differences between it
and the earlier Aristotelian logic.” (p. 72) And quantification
means the translation of non-visual relations and realities into
visual terms, a procedure inherent in the phonetic alphabet, as
was shown earlier. But with Ramus in the sixteenth century it is