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    Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski (/kɔːrˈzɪbski, -ˈzɪp-, -ˈʒɪp-, kəˈʒɪpski/, Polish: [ˈalfrɛt kɔˈʐɨpskʲi]; July 3, 1879 – March 1, 1950) was a Polish-American...
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  • established in 1938 by Alfred Korzybski, to support research and publication on the topic of general semantics. The Institute publishes Korzybski's writings, including...
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  • names human engineering and humanology, Polish-American originator Alfred Korzybski (1879–1950) fully launched the program as general semantics in 1933...
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    with what it represents. Polish-American scientist and philosopher Alfred Korzybski remarked that "the map is not the territory" and that "the word is...
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  • involves wholeness, whereas insanity implies narrowness and brokenness. Alfred Korzybski proposed a theory of sanity in his general semantics. He believed sanity...
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  • editor, and teacher. General semantics Institute of General Semantics Alfred Korzybski Lance Strate "Robert Paul Pula (1928-2004) - Find a Grave". Find a...
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  • perspective of general semantics, an educational discipline created by Alfred Korzybski in the 1930s time bind, a sociological concept relevant to family and...
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  • 23, he photographed and filmed Alfred Korzybski at the Institute of General Semantics, helping to document Korzybski's life. Apparently he was already...
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  • David Bourland Jr., who had studied under Alfred Korzybski, devised E-Prime as an addition to Korzybski's general semantics in the late 1940s. Bourland...
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  • influence on cognition. Drawing on Nietzsche's ideas of perspectivism Alfred Korzybski developed the theory of general semantics that has been compared to...
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  • semantics and rational-emotive therapy: 1991 Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture. Institute of General Semantics Korzybski A. (1933). Science and Sanity. Institute...
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  • publication. The term systemantics is a commentary on prior work by Alfred Korzybski called general semantics which conjectured that all systems failures...
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  • manipulation, cranial osteopathy, hatha yoga, and the general semantics of Alfred Korzybski. In 1971 she founded the Rolf Institute of Structural Integration....
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  • influence how distinctions are drawn. This is an important reason why, as Alfred Korzybski noted, people frequently confuse the symbolic representation of reality...
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  • informing principles such as is to be found in the General Semantics of Alfred Korzybski. Bures, Charles E. (1951). "A Critique of Hayakawa's 'Language in Thought...
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    language shapes thought. More specifically, Herbert was influenced by Alfred Korzybski's General Semantics. Algis Budrys wrote that Herbert's knowledge of...
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    of General Semantics, and he delivered the annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture in 1955. Korzybski is mentioned in the Introduction of his book Synergetics...
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  • soldier during World War II Vadim Komkov (1919–2008) – mathematician Alfred Korzybski (1879–1950) – engineer, mathematician and philosopher Bohdan Kulakowski...
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  • ideas drawn from general semantics (directly from the writings of Alfred Korzybski) and also from Norbert Wiener's early work on cybernetics, which had...
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    coming to believe Carnap had used some of his ideas without permission. Alfred Korzybski credits Wittgenstein as an influence in his book, Science and Sanity:...
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  • painting is sometimes given as an example of meta message like the Alfred Korzybski's "The word is not the thing" and "The map is not the territory", as...
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  • colors). General semantics is a school of thought founded by engineer Alfred Korzybski in the 1930s and later popularized by S.I. Hayakawa and others, which...
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  • system. In one form, it appears as a pegboard with tags. Created by Alfred Korzybski, and awarded a U.S. patent on May 26, 1925, it is used as a training...
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  • time, he became particularly interested in the general semantics of Alfred Korzybski. He subsequently wrote a novel merging these overarching themes, The...
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  • semantics was a therapy program created by Polish-American scholar Alfred Korzybski in the 1920s for the purpose of altering behavior. It has been regarded...
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  • an important role in the theory of general semantics originated by Alfred Korzybski. Anatol Rapoport wrote "Abstracting is a mechanism by which an infinite...
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    General Semantics, a self-improvement and therapy program created by Alfred Korzybski to cure personal and social issues. Scientologists believe that Hubbard...
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    of Olaf Stapledon, Robert A. Heinlein and Theodore Sturgeon) and Alfred Korzybski's interdisciplinary theory of general semantics. He would later recall...
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    later authored a book called Science of Survival. Hubbard cited author Alfred Korzybski as an influence; after two years observing patients at St. Elizabeth's...
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    supporter of general semantics, recommending it in Dumbth and giving the Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture in 1992. Allen was a Democrat, even though Jayne Meadows...
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