Korzybski

Noun

Meaning

United States semanticist (born in Poland) (1879-1950)

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Alfred Korzybski justified the expression he coined — " the map is not the territory " — by saying that "the denial of identification (as in 'is not') has opposite neuro-linguistic effects on the brain from the assertion of identity (as in 'is')." Source: Internet

"Alfred Korzybski," ETC: A Review of General Semantics, Winter 2003 This article seeks to explain briefly only the "indexing" devices. Source: Internet

Anecdotes One day, Korzybski was giving a lecture to a group of students, and he interrupted the lesson suddenly in order to retrieve a packet of biscuits, wrapped in white paper, from his briefcase. Source: Internet

And he also stressed that sanity requires the awareness that "whatever you say a thing is, it is not" Korzybski, A. 2010. Source: Internet

Chase called Korzybski "a pioneer" and described Science and Sanity as "formulating a genuine science of communication. Source: Internet

During the 1930s and 1940s, Heinlein was deeply interested in Alfred Korzybski 's General Semantics and attended a number of seminars on the subject. Source: Internet

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