In spite of its title, this book is neither scientific nor sane; it is merely ponderous. It is the first volume of a series of books dealing with non-Aristotelian logic. As the volume runs to almost 800 pages it is not susceptible to summarization, particularly since it is so abstract. The chief principle of Aristotelian logic is an attempt to find similarities, and the present author criticizes this, saying that abstractions should be found, and hence that the most valid science that can be brought to bear on life is mathematics. He feels that mathematics is a group of patterns of relational language, which reveals at its various steps the workings of the human mind; and he stresses the fact that much of the difficulty that the human mind experiences is in grasping meanings which he calls "semantic structures." The entire book is a combination of various abstruse interpretations of
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