Half the two hours was spent on ideas like the great Greek's defense of deductivereasoning, the point being that logic should inform decisions on everything from car loans to cashouts.
Mr. Burton's treatise, like the man himself, rests between two ages one in which the authority of Scripture reigned supreme, and a newer era acknowledging the power of deductivereasoning to sort out life's great questions.
Now, better statistical tools and neuroscience are opening up the possibility that economics can become an abductive science that combines elements of deductive and inductive reasoning.