The references to Buddhism and Aristotle are traditional in the literature and go back at least to Bart Kosko's Fuzzy Thinking -- a 1993 best seller about fuzzy logic for a general audience. Specifically binary and multi-valued logic were compared as 'Aristotle v. the Buddha'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_Kosko

http://www.amazon.com/Fuzzy-Thinking-The-Science-Logic/dp/15...