Korzybski

[kawr-zip-skee, -zhip-, kaw-zhip-skee]

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

Korzybski

/ kɔːˈzɪbskɪ /

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

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I know a little about Korzybski and how he wanted everybody to make what he called a cortico-thalamic pause whenever they get scared as hell.

It's really a semantic reaction test; Korzybski would have loved it.

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

You know," he said, "for a disciple of Korzybski, you came pretty close to confusing orders of abstraction, a couple of times, back there.

The novel was inspired by a work of Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity.

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