general semantics
Noun
Meaning
general semantics (uncountable)
An educational discipline based on the notion that certain techniques can enhance one's ability to evaluate and respond to the world
Examples
A book for all occasions: activities for teaching general semantics.
According to general semantics, language, natural or otherwise (including the language called 'mathematics') can be used to describe the taste of an orange, but one cannot give the taste of the orange using language alone.
A general semantics approach to teaching business ethics.
Both general semantics along the lines of Hayakawa, Lee, and Postman and more technical (mathematical and philosophical) material.
"First, I'd say that there is little if any benefit to be gained by just knowing something about general semantics.
In general semantics, it is always possible to give a description of empirical facts, but such descriptions remain just that—descriptions—which necessarily leave out many aspects of the objective, microscopic, and submicroscopic events they describe.