Korzybski
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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
If the whole world adopted general semantics, treating each fact freshly without preconceived notions, Korzybski thinks i would be sane at last.
From Time Magazine Archive
Twenty years ago, few would have walked across the street to listen to Alfred Korzybski.
From Time Magazine Archive
It's really a semantic reaction test; Korzybski would have loved it.
From Day of the Moron by Piper, H. Beam
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