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general semantics

n. (used with a sing. verb)
A discipline developed by Alfred Korzybski that proposes to improve human behavioral responses through a more critical use of words and symbols.
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general semantics

n
(Linguistics) (functioning as singular) a school of thought, founded by Alfred Korzybski, that stresses the arbitrary nature of language and other symbols and the problems that result from misunderstanding their nature
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gen′eral seman′tics


n.
a philosophical approach to language exploring the relationship between the form of language and its use and attempting to improve the capacity to express ideas.
[1930–35]
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His main work, Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-aristotelian Systems and General Semantics (begun in 1927, published in 1933), is, in the main, an answer (in the affirmative) to this question and a formulation of a non-aristotelian system, now called general semantics.
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Mary Morain is past-president of the International Society for General Semantics, has served on birth-control boards in Massachusetts and San Francisco, and has lectured and written widely on the need for population-growth control.
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It's a fascinating field of inquiry that certainly has a broad array of fundamental elements born from the general semantics and media ecology canon; and most of the topics covered in the pages of ETC over the years have dealt with these communicational issues in one way or another.
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The Communication Panacea: Pediatrics and General Semantics. Forest Hills, NY: Institute of General Semantics, 2014.
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--Allen Ginsberg, from Ginsberg: A Biography In an advertising blurb announcing a recent poetry event sponsored by the New York Society for General Semantics, NYSGS President Lance Strate stated: "Alfred Korzybski, founder of general semantics, wrote that, 'poetry often conveys in a few sentences more of lasting values than a whole volume of scientific analysis' (Science and Sanity, p.
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The general semantics dating device, attaching dates to our evaluations, is meant to remind us that things are constantly changing and the world is in flux.
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Lance Strate is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University and is internationally recognized for his intellectual leadership in the discipline of communication, Media Ecology, and General Semantics. Prof.
SAN FRANCISCO NOVEMBER 16 2010
trustee of the Institute of General Semantics, and is the President of
FLUSHING
Talbot Winchell Award for his many contributions in service to general semantics. Twenty-five speakers from all over the United States and abroad took part at the AKML symposium, which was held on October 28th and 29th.
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The New York Society for General Semantics (NYSGS) sponsored a program titled Political Talk and Political Drama: Election 2016 on September 9, 2016, a date that marked the 70th anniversary of the founding of the New York Society.
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A Continuing Education Guide to Teaching General Semantics. Forest Hills, NY: Institute of General Semantics, 2014.
A Continuing Education Guide to Teaching General Semantics

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