Korzybski

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.

Here’s what tyranny looks like at the beginning 2010

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.

UPDATED: I've Been Tagged 2006

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.

Iowa Straw Poll-- Did Romney Spend over $1000 a vote to win it? Either Way This is a Loss for Republicans 2007

I hadn't realised that Korzybski was post-modern until I read Doug's wikipedia link.

philosophical principles Bill Kerr 2007

So apart from my Korzybski-ist PM deviation it all works for me

philosophical principles Bill Kerr 2007

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.

Iowa Straw Poll-- Did Romney Spend over $1000 a vote to win it? Either Way This is a Loss for Republicans 2007

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

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

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

Korzybski, Aurobindo, and Lao Tzu were major influences on Simon.

Archive 2005-11-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2005