Korzybski
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.