Korzybski
Americannoun
noun
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Better to say, Korzybski suggested, "I classify the rose as red," or "I see the rose as red."
From Time Magazine Archive
To appreciate the damage that this sort of sloppiness can do, it is useful to invoke the late Count Alfred Korzybski, inventor of general semantics.
From Time Magazine Archive
But let us at least follow Korzybski and "index" what we talk about: medium1, perhaps, for television, medium2 for newsmagazines, medium3 for large city dailies, medium10 for the underground press, etc.
From Time Magazine Archive
Korzybski was a Polish-born mathematician and physicist, part crank and part genius, who regarded his theory as a whole new science of life.
From Time Magazine Archive
You know," he said, "for a disciple of Korzybski, you came pretty close to confusing orders of abstraction, a couple of times, back there.
From Murder in the Gunroom by Piper, H. Beam
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