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Alfred Korzybski

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Quotations
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Alfred Korzybski Quotes
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Alfred Korzybski (1879 – 1950), was a Polish engineer, mathematician, and philosopher, best known for creating the theory of General Semantics . Unsourced The word is not the thing. Any organism must be treated as-a-whole; in other words, that an...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Alfred Korzybski Information
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Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski was a philosopher and scientist born on July 3, 1879 in Warsaw, Congress Poland, and died on March 1, 1950, in Lakeville, Connecticut, U.S.. He is probably best-remembered for developing the theory of general...


News and Journals
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ETC.: A Review of General Semantics
Alfred Korzybski.
12/22/2003: 3,412 words, approx. 11 pages
In 1976, I was appointed editor of ETC: The Journal of General Semantics. For ten years, I served in that capacity, and with each passing year, my respect for Alfred Korzybski increased and my respect for those academics who kept themselves and their...
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Alfred Korzybski
01/01/2004: 3,462 words, approx. 12 pages
In 1976, I was appointed editor of ETC: The Journal of General Semantics. For ten years, I served in that capacity, and with each passing year, my respect for Alfred Korzybski increased and my respect for those academics who kept themselves and their students...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Max Black
7,744 words, approx. 26 pages
In the following excerpt, Black considers Korzybski as an innovative and influential thinker whose theories of semantics have the potential to improve the human condition.
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Critical Essay by Stuart Chase
7,590 words, approx. 25 pages
In the following excerpt, Chase combines a personal description of Korzybski with an assessment of his study of language.
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Critical Essay by Anatol Rapoport
6,356 words, approx. 21 pages
In the following essay, Rapoport reminisces about his first exposure to Korzybski's principles and remembers the author as an inept instructor and sloppy thinker.
 


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