AbstractBaumrin's review of Shute's paper fails to recognize its intended nature and overlooks his extended analysis of Aristotle's psychology in book form. Baumrin also overlooks the mutuality of organism‐object interaction in Aristotle's analysis of sensing and implies that he is offering an input‐output process compatible with concepts of information processing. The problems with this lie in the questionable scientific status of the latter and its historical roots in metaphysics rather than Greek natural