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time-binding

American  
[tahym-bahyn-ding] / ˈtaɪmˌbaɪn dɪŋ /

noun

  1. the distinctively human attribute of preserving memories and records of experiences for the use of subsequent generations.


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There is nothing mystical about the fact that ideas and words are energies which powerfully affect the physico-chemical base of our time-binding activities.

From Manhood of Humanity. by Alfred Korzybski

It is only by the time-binding capacity of man—by scientific progress and technological invention—that the checks have been overcome.

From Manhood of Humanity. by Alfred Korzybski

In mastering and using this inheritance of knowledge, they are exercising their time-binding energies and making the labor of the dead live in the present and for the future.

From Manhood of Humanity. by Alfred Korzybski

Human freedom consists in exercising the time-binding energies of man in accordance with the natural laws of such natural energies.

From Manhood of Humanity. by Alfred Korzybski

It will be a branch of humanology, a branch of Human Engineering; it will be a time-binding ethics, the ethics of the entirely natural civilization-producing energies of humanity.

From Manhood of Humanity. by Alfred Korzybski

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