Discoveries in Telford's translations and commentaries on Greek philosophy are discoveries so basic and so important as to drastically change the significance of almost everything the Greeks said. These discoveries were made in two areas, Greek linguistics and philosophic and scientific procedure, which, until one man had become skilled in both, had never before impacted on each other. Telford discovered that what the Greeks tried to say was obscured by the modern projection, upon both their language and their works, of precisely the reductive way of thinking that their philosophy was...

Telford's translations and commentaries on Greek philosophy form a rare and significant reassessment of ancient thought. For his discoveries, about Greek language generally, and Greek philosophers specifically, are so basic and so important as to change drastically the significance of almost everything they said. The discoveries were in two disciplines, Greek linguistics and philosophic or scientific procedure. Until both could be understood by one man, their impacts upon each other would never be noticed. For Telford discovered that Greek writings have been obscured and confused by...