ABSTRACT
The fashion in question concerns one of the dimensions of cognitive style—roughly speaking, the use which is made of formal logic and mathematics. This cognitive style is likely to be occupied with individuals, particular persons or sets of events, case studies, clinical findings, and the like. The academic style is much more abstract and general than the literary style. Ordinary words are used in special senses, to constitute a technical vocabulary. The eristic style is a strong interest in proof, and of specific propositions, rather than, as in the literary and academic styles, the aim only of exhibiting the cognitive possibilities in certain broad perspectives on the subject-matter. The postulational style has many of the characteristics of the symbolic style, of which, indeed, it could be regarded as a special variant. It differs from the symbolic style in general only as logic differs from mathematics.
