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defend his reputed anti-Aristotelian thesis, Quaecumque
ab Aristotele dicta essent commentitia esse , . . . he quite
evidently meant this to say not that Aristotle was
untruthful (a common interpretation of the reported
thesis) but rather that Aristotle’s material was poorly
organized, not properly controlled by ‘method’.
In other words, it was unsuited for the Gutenberg era.
The accommodation of studies by Ramist diagrams and
divisions was the first large move of learning in the direction of
the merchant mind. So we shall leave Father Ong after quoting
a last passage from page 170 which will help bring us back to
Professor Nef:
But there was another aspect of Ramist method