The ability to know how to define a thing, and to know how to express it on the basis of characteristics, uniqueness and differences 6 . And then it is also, by linking it to Aristotle and his logic, to "formal logic", that basic model of reasoning capable of affirming something in the light of its premises. This is the basis of the syllogism, according to which if all the boys aged 19 to 23 inboy aged 19 to 23 in my city, then Marco goes to university. Or again with the principle of identity according to which A = A, and the principle of non-contradiction according to which A ≠A. And therefore apples are equal to apples, but they are different from pears.
A linear logic, as an alternative to which dialectics will rise, from Heraclitus to Hegel, up to certain trends in quantum physics. A logic, as we said, founded on the uniqueness against all mobile number list authoritarianism, even of reason and logic itself, where "I am I" 7 to quote a Negroponte, but which for Sartori, instead is only good for filling psychiatric clinics. Sartori: between modernity and postmodernity Sartori's analyses, however, are affected by a conservative mentality.
One of the parties involved in that game between apocalyptics and integrated well highlighted by Umberto Eco, precisely with regard to the advent of new technologies 8 . Even more specifically, Sartori's analyzes are affected by the mentality of the moderns, formed on modern philosophy and science (Bacon, Descartes, Kant, etc.). Sartori's are the analyzes of a liberal, humanist, bourgeois, "closed" - in a neutral sense - to the advancing postmodern world. Sartori's analyses, concerning the profound – for the worse – neuro-anthropological mutation of the human being, as well as the cultural one, are valid in our opinion for the masses.