ABSTRACT
I have suggested that this simplistic habit is what people are usually complaining of today when they stigmatise recent thinking as ‘modern’. The actual word ‘modern’ is quite unsuitable here. It can certainly not go on much longer being used forever in this way to describe what is manifestly out of date. Besides, it is too vague. We need clearer, more specific words for this range of faults. For present purposes I suggest that the terms needed are often ones such as ‘dogmatic’, ‘one-sided’, ‘simplistic’ and ‘monolithic’.
