The Institute of General Semantics is a not-for-profit corporation established in 1938 by Alfred Korzybski, located in Fort Worth, Texas. Its membership roles include members from 30 different countries. The Institute of General Semantics publishes: Alfred Korzybski Alfred Władysław Augustyn Korzybski pseudonym: Habdank Skarbek Korzybski (July 3, 1879 - March 1, 1950), born in Warsaw, Poland, came from an aristocratic family which had worked as mathematicians, scientists, and engineers for generations, and he chose to train as an engineer. ...
ETC: A Review of General Semantics, a quarterly journal printed since 1943, distributed to IGS members and subscribed to by over 350 libraries around the world.
The General Semantics Bulletin, the yearbook of the Institute published since 1950.
Over 30 books, CDs, DVDs, and tapes on general semantics.
Alfred Korzybski Alfred Władysław Augustyn Korzybski pseudonym: Habdank Skarbek Korzybski (July 3, 1879 - March 1, 1950), born in Warsaw, Poland, came from an aristocratic family which had worked as mathematicians, scientists, and engineers for generations, and he chose to train as an engineer. ... General Semantics is a school of thought founded by Alfred Korzybski in about 1933 in response to his observations that most people had difficulty defining human and social discussions and problems and could almost never predictably resolve them into elements that were responsive to successful intervention or correction. ...
GeneralSemantics is a school of thought founded by Alfred Korzybski in about 1933 in response to his observations that most people had difficulty defining human and social discussions and problems and could almost never predictably resolve them into elements that were responsive to successful intervention or correction.
One discovery of GeneralSemantics was of the role of magic in popular culture, especially notable in the use of incantations as political and advertising slogans.
GeneralSemantics teaches that all linguistic representations discard most of reality ("The map is not the territory; the word is not the thing defined.") and in particular that much un-sanity is caused by adherence to the Aristotelian representation of two-valued either-or logic, which Korzybski saw as being built into Indo-European language structures.
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