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My distrust goes back to reading Korzybski and Hayakawa on general semantics back in high school, my ongoing study of fallacies and propaganda, and my more recent training in NLP.
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I liked it because Tony Robbins preaches a version of Korzybski General Semantics popularized in SF circles by A.E. van Vogt's WORLD OF NULL A, the theory that the personality is shaped by the nature of the abstract concepts we use to think about the world.
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I recommend anyone interested read some Korzybski (1879-1950) about 'General Semantics', especially his work on abstraction -- but much work has been in linguistics and cognitive psychology since then, of course.
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I hadn't realised that Korzybski was post-modern until I read Doug's wikipedia link.
philosophical principles Bill Kerr 2007
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So apart from my Korzybski-ist PM deviation it all works for me
philosophical principles Bill Kerr 2007
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I recommend anyone interested read some Korzybski (1879-1950) about 'General Semantics', especially his work on abstraction -- but much work has been in linguistics and cognitive psychology since then, of course.
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Taleb quickly joined my old companion Korzybski, who started me thinking hard about categorical constructs, - and we over here in psychiatry-land are awash in descriptive labels and drowning in the Gaussian Curve of tiny n numbers with limited variables.
My New Crush 2007
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Alfred Korzybski believed that sanity was tied to the structural fit or lack of it between our reactions to the world and what is actually going on in the world.
badger Diary Entry badger 2006
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Korzybski influenced Simon's orientation toward the event, his awareness of abstracting, and his concept of feeling things across space/time.
Archive 2005-11-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2005
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Korzybski, Aurobindo, and Lao Tzu were major influences on Simon.
Archive 2005-11-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2005
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