semanticist

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(That was the message of the general semanticist Alfred Korzybski, famous for "a map is not the territory.")

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  • We often forget what S.I. Hayakawa, the semanticist and senator observed: "the map is not the territory."
  • (That was the message of the general semanticist Alfred Korzybski, famous for "a map is not the territory.") —  Homeland Security Watch
  • Humans belong to, as a general semanticist has observed, "the only species able to talk themselves into difficulties that would otherwise not exist." —  FromDC2Iowa
  • With the reactions of a trained semanticist he relaxed instead of tensing up with fear. —  The Deadly Daughters
  • And even a skilled semanticist had trouble in making anything called a Fuzzy sound menacing. —  Little Fuzzy
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