• General semantics is a school of thought that incorporates philosophic and scientific aspects. Although it does not stand on its own as a separate school...
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  • The Institute of General Semantics (IGS) is a not-for-profit corporation established in 1938 by Alfred Korzybski, to support research and publication...
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    Other branches of semantics include conceptual semantics, computational semantics, and cultural semantics. Theories of meaning are general explanations of...
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  • Systems and General Semantics is a 1933 philosophy book written by Alfred Korzybski (1879–1950). Published by the Institute of General Semantics, it remains...
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  • Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics. Institute of General Semantics, 2005. "General semantics | philosophy". Encyclopedia Britannica...
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    Alfred Korzybski (category General semantics)
    developed a field called general semantics, which he viewed as both distinct from, and more encompassing than, the field of semantics. He argued that human...
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  • and levels of abstraction play an important role in the theory of general semantics originated by Alfred Korzybski. Anatol Rapoport wrote "Abstracting...
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  • treat the use of signs — for example, in linguistics, logic, mathematics, semantics, semiotics, and philosophy of language — the extension of a concept, idea...
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  • "The Semiotic Aspect of Alfred Korzybski's General Semantics" (PDF). ETC: A Review of General Semantics. 1. 40 (1). JSTOR: 16–21. doi:10.5840/cpsem19828...
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  • Structural differential (category General semantics)
    a U.S. patent on May 26, 1925, it is used as a training device in general semantics. The device is intended to show that human "knowledge" of, or acquaintance...
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  • E-Prime (category General semantics)
    in General Semantics Bulletin). The essay quickly generated controversy within the general semantics field, partly because practitioners of general semantics...
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    Robert K. Straus (category General semantics)
    by the teachings of Alfred Korzybski, Straus became a proponent of general semantics and advocated for its inclusion into the curriculum of Pace University...
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  • Have Inherent Meaning?". ETC: A Review of General Semantics. Vol. 65, no. 2. Institute of General Semantics 42578827. pp. 177–190. JSTOR 42578827. McGiveron...
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    "The General Semantics and Science Fiction of Robert Heinlein and A. E. Van Vogt" (PDF). General Semantics Bulletin 41. Institute of General Semantics. p...
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  • Cognitive semantics is part of the cognitive linguistics movement. Semantics is the study of linguistic meaning. Cognitive semantics holds that language...
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  • Lexical semantics (also known as lexicosemantics), as a subfield of linguistic semantics, is the study of word meanings. It includes the study of how words...
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    S. I. Hayakawa (category General semantics)
    self" as contrasted with the "survival of self-concept." His ideas on general semantics influenced A. E. van Vogt's Null-A novels, The World of Null-A and...
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  • Operational semantics is a category of formal programming language semantics in which certain desired properties of a program, such as correctness, safety...
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  • systemantics is a commentary on prior work by Alfred Korzybski called general semantics which conjectured that all systems failures could be attributed to...
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    insights of general semantics, a philosophy and training method developed in the 1930s by Alfred Korzybski. Herbert had studied general semantics in San Francisco...
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    Map–territory relation (category Semantics)
    regardless of any connection to general semantics per se (or absence thereof). Its avatars are thus encountered in semantics, statistics, logistics, business...
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    A Review of General Semantics. 26 (1): 93–95. JSTOR 42576335. Goldberg, Alvin (1962). "Group Communication". A Review of General Semantics. 19 (2): 221–24...
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  • Time binding (category General semantics)
    binding can refer to human progress as seen from the perspective of general semantics, an educational discipline created by Alfred Korzybski in the 1930s...
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  • Neil Postman (category General semantics)
    Monde. He was the editor of the quarterly journal ETC: A Review of General Semantics from 1976 to 1986. In 1976, Postman taught a course for NYU credit...
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  • In computer science, denotational semantics (initially known as mathematical semantics or Scott–Strachey semantics) is an approach of formalizing the meanings...
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    Levinson, Martin H. (2018). "Aldous Huxley and General Semantics" (PDF). ETC: A Review of General Semantics. 75 (3 and 4): 290–298. Archived (PDF) from the...
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  • 01953, ETC: A Review of General Semantics, Vol. X) About Games and Being Serious (01953, ETC: A Review of General Semantics, Vol. X) How Much Do You...
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  • Communication, The University of Toronto Law Journal, A Review of General Semantics and Scientific American Mind. The book was also reviewed in a monthly...
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  • 2017. Hilgartner, C. A. (1998). "Ishmael and general Semantics Theory". ETC: A Review of General Semantics Vol. 55, No. 2 (Summer 1998), pp. 167-168. Chameides...
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  • Parkerson, Ronny W. (1998). "Semantics, General Semantics, and Ecology in Frank Herbert's Dune". ETC: A Review of General Semantics. 55 (3): 317–328. ISSN 0014-164X...
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