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Korzybski

American  
[kawr-zip-skee, -zhip-, kaw-zhip-skee] / kɔrˈzɪp ski, -ˈʒɪp-, kɔˈʒɪp ski /

noun

  1. Alfred (Habdank Skarbek) 1879–1950, U.S. writer on general semantics, born in Poland.


Korzybski British  
/ kɔːˈzɪbskɪ /

noun

  1. Alfred ( Habdank Skarbek ). 1879–1950, US originator of the theory and study of general semantics, born in Poland

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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

Better to say, Korzybski suggested, "I classify the rose as red," or "I see the rose as red."

From Time Magazine Archive

This process of advancing from one order of meaning to another, Korzybski calls abstracting.

From Time Magazine Archive

Korzybski says that what's wrong with people with "Aristotelian orientations" is that they tend to build their attitudes and their lives on verbal definitions .

From Time Magazine Archive

He went back to the first century Pre-Atomic, and Pavlov and Korzybski and Freud.

From Little Fuzzy by Piper, H. Beam

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