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    Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski (/kɔːrˈzɪbski, kəˈʒɪpski/; Polish: [ˈalfrɛt kɔˈʐɨpskʲi]; July 3, 1879 – March 1, 1950) was a Polish-American independent...
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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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  • Systems and General Semantics is a 1933 philosophy book written by Alfred Korzybski. Published by the Institute of General Semantics, it remains in print...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • idea has been historically expressed by various thinkers in the past. Alfred Korzybski noted in 1933, "A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • van Vogt. It incorporates concepts from the General semantics of Alfred Korzybski and refers to non-Aristotelian logic. The novel is a continuation of...
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  • Semantics approach to psychology, language, and translation begun by Alfred Korzybski. In 1956, he visited Japan, India, Pakistan, and Egypt, seeking the...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • time, he became particularly interested in the general semantics of Alfred Korzybski.[citation needed] He subsequently wrote a novel merging these overarching...
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  • until 1965, and co-worker of Alfred Korzybski, who developed the theory of general semantics. She completed Korzybski's collected writings after his death...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    term "race". In 1952, together with William Vogt, he gave the first Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture, inaugurating the series. Montagu wrote the Foreword...
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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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