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	fUSION Anomaly. Alfred Korzybski
		A discipline developed by Alfred Korzybski that proposes to improve human behavioral responses through a more critical use of words and symbols.
		There was a Fundamentalist Futurist back in the 1890's who demonstrated that New York City would be abandoned as unfit for habitation by the 1930s.
		This illustrates the most frequent fallacy found in Future projections: the "elementalistic fallacy" named by Alfred Korzybski.
	fusionanomaly.net /alfredkorzybski.html (861 words)

	Science and Sanity - Alfred Korzybski
		I believe that his world view, despite some exaggerations and a tendency to self-aggrandizement, is basically sound, has turned out to be influential, and is largely compatible with modern scientific thought.
		Hayakawa's recollections in interview form ("oral history") of his time with Korzybski are illuminating and amusing.
		Apparently, Korzybski and Hayakawa had a good relationship, but Hayakawa characterised himself as a "disobedient son", adding that Korzybski wanted "faithful, nonargumentative, pious disciples, spreading the word of Korzybski".
	www.zenker.se /Books/korzybski.shtml (952 words)

	Alfred Korzybski at AllExperts
		In simplified form, the "essence" of Korzybski's work was the claim that human beings are limited in what they know by (1) the structure of their nervous systems, and (2) the structure of their languages.
		This was expressed in Korzybski's most famous premise, "the map is not the territory." Note that "the map is not the territory," uses the phrase "is not", a form of the verb "to be." This example (one of many) shows that he did not intend to abandon the verb as such.
		One day, Korzybski was giving a lecture to a group of students, and he suddenly interrupted the lesson in order to retrieve a packet of biscuits, wrapped in white paper, from his briefcase.
	en.allexperts.com /e/a/al/alfred_korzybski.htm (1096 words)

	Alfred Korzybski biography by Steven Lewis
		Korzybski was encouraged to develop and publish his ideas by friends that included biologist Jacques Loeb and mathematician Cassius Jackson Keyser (1884-1945).
		Korzybski continued his research into the mechanisms of time-binding, and attempted a synthesis of the sciences from the standpoint of a theory of human evaluation.
		Korzybski's devices were designed to encourage people to delay their immediate reactions while they searched for the unique characteristics of a situation and alternative interpretations.
	www.mcckc.edu /~lewis/akbio.htm (1194 words)

	Korzybski, Alfred Criticism and Essays
		Korzybski was a founder of the general semantics movement in the United States, which sought to develop a linguistic system that would lead to a more precise use of language.
		Korzybski was born in Warsaw, Poland, to Ladislas Habdank Korzybski and Countess Helena Rzewuska.
		Korzybski believed this system would lead to greater understanding among groups and to the realization that every "fact" has indefinite levels of abstraction—what he called the "etc."—about which we can know very little.
	www.enotes.com /twentieth-century-criticism/korzybski-alfred/introduction (537 words)

	Alfred Korzybski biography by Steven Lewis
		Korzybski was encouraged to develop and publish his ideas by friends that included biologist Jacques Loeb and mathematician Cassius Jackson Keyser (1884-1945).
		Korzybski continued his research into the mechanisms of time-binding, and attempted a synthesis of the sciences from the standpoint of a theory of human evaluation.
		Korzybski's devices were designed to encourage people to delay their immediate reactions while they searched for the unique characteristics of a situation and alternative interpretations.
	mcckc.edu /~lewis/akbio.htm (1194 words)

	Articles - Alfred Korzybski
		Korzybski, the father of modern transformational grammar, realized that language is an expression of fundamental metaphysical belief.
		Korzybski suggested that our language would serve us better if it reflected the view of the cosmos suggested by Einstein’s theories of relativity, as well as the discoveries made in the field of quantum physics.
		Korzybski observed that many people were distressed in life, and that the cause of their distress was their rigid "objectified" views of the world.
	www.dflintnernlp.com /articles/AlfredK.html (861 words)

	Alfred Korzybski Summary
		Alfred Korzybski was born on July 3, 1879 in Warsaw, Poland, and died on March 1, 1950 in Lakeville, Connecticut, USA.
		In the following excerpt, Black considers Korzybski as an innovative and influential thinker whose theories of semantics have the potential to improve the human condition.
		In the following excerpt, Chase combines a personal description of Korzybski with an assessment of his study of language.
	www.bookrags.com /Alfred_Korzybski (160 words)

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		Korzybski came from a wealthy, aristocratic Polish family which had worked as mathematicians, scientists, and engineers for generations.
		Korzybski served, in 1920, with the Polish Commission to the League of Nations.
		Korzybski felt that teaching humans animalistic or mythological theories about themselves helped create and perpetuate such episodes as the recent war.
	www.angelfire.com /scifi2/rsolecki/alfred_korzybski.html (611 words)

	Future Positive : Front Page
		Alfred Vladislavovich Habdank Skarbek Korzybski was the son of (Nobleman) Ladislas Korzybski and (Countess) Helena Rzewuska.
		The surname of Korzybski is derived from the name of the estate of Korzybie, the suffix "ski" being comparable to "of", or the French "de".
		Alfred Korzybski was the second child in the family, and the nursery had already been established for his sister, about two years older.
	futurepositive.synearth.net /2003/11/14 (6048 words)

	Polonia Global Fund · 02/2002 - Alfred Korzybski (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Alfred Korzybski was born on July 3, 1879, in Warsaw, Poland to wealthy, aristocratic parents.
		Korzybski suggested humans needed to be properly trained in the use of language to prevent misevaluation of non-verbal realities.
		Korzybski noted that we have fewer words and ideas than unique situations, and this tends to lead to the identification (”confusion”) of two or more situations.
	konicki.com /blog3/persons-of-the-month/2002-persons-of-the-month/022002-alfred-korzybski (1374 words)

	Science and Sanity by Alfred Korzybski, An Evolution of Consciousness Review by Bobby Matherne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Korzybski's work created the field of General Semantics, which became known as a science and was taught in colleges and universities.
		While Korzybski developed his work independently of semantics or semiotics, he admits that, as his work progressed, it became obvious to him that "a theory of meaning" was impossible.
		Korzybski gives a salient example of one of those philosopher-penned reviews and shows how error-prone it is and how it completely misses the point of his work.
	www.doyletics.com /art/sciencea.htm (3051 words)

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		La teoria di Korzybski tende piuttosto di definire il rapporto tra il sistema nervoso umano e le sue reazioni agli stimoli esterni, di qualsiasi natura questi siano, e vorrebbe creare un metodo per integrare le reazioni istintuali, il pensiero e il comportamento in un insieme omogeneo e coerente.
		Nato in Polonia (allora possedimento russo) da una famiglia nobile ricca di una tradizione di scienziati e ingegneri, il conte Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski (1879-1950), che già parlava quattro lingue, studiò ingegneria chimica all’Università Tecnica di Varsavia.
		Nella “Semantica Generale“, Korzybski evolve le sue teorie per superare le difficoltà di autocompletamento della logica aristotelica e per sviluppare un sistema alternativo, basato soprattutto sulla relazione tra neurobiologia e linguaggio.
	www.wmtools.com /news/category/semantica (2767 words)

	Société francophone de sémantique générale: Alfred KORZYBSKI
		Présentation de la SG • Alfred Korzybski •
		Le Comte Alfred Habdank KORZYBSKI est né à Varsovie, d'une vieille famille polonaise, en 1879.
		(Tiré de l'"Introduction à la Sémantique générale de Korzybski" de Hélène Bulla de Villaret, Courrier du Livre.)
	semantiquegenerale.free.fr /ak.htm (234 words)

	general semantics
		Some of these individuals have gone on to become significant participants in the overall administration of the organizations presenting themselves as "official" organs of general semantics in our culture.
		The loss of expertise in the theoretical foundations contributes directly to the view that general semantics is becoming a cult of practitioners who continually cite "chapter and verse" from Korzybski's original writings.
		As Korzybski himself frequently emphasized, general semantics must be continually re-evaluated and updated in the light of new knowledge.
	www.xenodochy.org /gs (1273 words)

	Communication Theory: A First Look
		Korzybski and his followers have a number of recommendations to ensure a heightened awareness that the map is not the territory, They urge adding a mental "et cetera" on the end of each sentence to remind ourselves that there is always more to say.
		Korzybski refers to the process of drawing a map based on other maps as "self-reflexive." But the secondhand map can’t possibly reflect the richness of the territory the cartographer would observe if he were actually on site.
		Korzybski’s mission in life was to raise both the speaker’s and listener’s consciousness of faulty assumptions that underlie abstract words.
	www.afirstlook.com /archive/gensem.cfm?source=archther (3233 words)

	disinformation \| trip reset (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Alfred Korzybski created E-Prime to abolish the "Is-of-Identity" ("X is Y"), and this was extended by D. David Bourland Jr.
		Korzybski and E-Prime influenced William S. Burroughs and A.E. Van Vogt; its extension of cause-effect language and thinking into non-Aristotelian and post-Newtonian vistas was 'stolen' by L.
		When combined with the linguistics work of Alfred Korzybski, Hans Vaihinger and Gregory Bateson, the floatation tank can assist the practitioner in arcing the gap between conventional and post-conventional worldviews.
	www.disinfo.com /archive/pages/article/id1326/pg1 (964 words)

	Alfred Korzybski and Cause and Effect, Part I
		In 1933, Alfred Korzybski came to realize that from Einstein’s work, the philosophical formats of Aristotle were untenable.
		Alfred Korzybski, along with Einsteinian Physicists and Mathematicians realized that in an Einsteinian Universe there had to be and, indeed, there was structure.
		For Korzybski, the problem was how to organize the argumentation to discount A and have in place his beloved Non-A -system.
	www.neuro-semanticprogramming.com /Cause_Effect_1.htm (1680 words)

	Alfred Korzybski and Cause and Effect, Part II
		Korzybski is very clear here that the A-system and its structure simple does not fit with the structure of the world as known in 1933.
		Alfred Korzybski could not be more succinct in his disapproval of the A-system language.
		Korzybski’s critique of the underlying pre-suppositions of the A language is ferocious.
	www.neuro-semanticprogramming.com /Cause_Effect_2.htm (2429 words)

	Korzybski, Alfred
		Alfred Korzybski, The Brotherhood of Doctrines, (The Builder, April 1924),
		I believe this to have been an 'honest error', stemming from mere oversight— still, no credit to K, especially that it had been repeated by many other writers, in some cases with other inaccuracies added.
		That year, Korzybski went to Warsaw-Poland and attended a congress of the mathematicians from the Slav countries, and there he first learned about the work of Łukasiewicz, also about the work of Chwistek, Lesniewski, Tarski, etc.
	www.geocities.com /paultabaka/korzybski.html (741 words)

	Count Alfred Korzybski
		Count Alfred Korzybski was an influential writer and speaker in the 1930s and influenced people like Hubbard and the NLP people.
		Korzybski says that we often split intention into ends and means and forget the means.
		If we took Korzybski to heart, we might write it as MESTO, to include the observer.
	radio.weblogs.com /0114013/stories/2002/12/07/countAlfredKorzybski.html (418 words)

	Alfred Korzybski
		Various teaching positions he held were in the fields of physics, French, German, and mathematics.
		Korzybski has extensive experience in military operations including serving with the Polish cavalry, and recruiting for the Polish Army.
		After lecturing extensively and publishing many of his ideas, Korzybski passed away in 1950.
	www.gwu.edu /~asc/people/new/korzybski/ak.html (72 words)

	Korzybski and Gestalt Therapy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Perhaps the most overlooked theoretical influence on Frederick Perls and Paul Goodman, who originally articulated Gestalt therapy theory, was Alfred Korzybski, the primary thinker behind the general semantics movement.
		Erving Polster, in "A Contemporary Psychotherapy" (Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 1966), identifies the general semantics movement as one of the distinct movements that made the here-and-now experience important in psychotherapy before it was given crucial emphasis by the existentialists.
		"Korzybski's published works, including Science and Sanity, Manhood of Humanity, and Collected Writings, are available on the web through the Institute of General Semantics, or contact them via email.Here, through the courtesy of the Institute of General Semantics, is an excellent overview of his work and an article from Collected Writings."
	www.gestalt.org /alfred.htm (214 words)

	Amazon.com: Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics (International ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Korzybski's attitude was definitely NOT "science for science's sake." Instead, he sought to integrate diverse branches of knowledge into a system that would be simple enough to teach to young children, so that each young child would begin life with the knowledge and wisdom that took the human race centuries of labor to achieve.
		And if reason becomes the primary way in which a person is taught to perceive the world, his or her imaginative powers, which almost always begin as irrational impulses, are suppressed to the point of disfunction.
		Korzybski's comments were constructive, for example men and women regress to infantilism if they copy animals in their nervous reactions (conditioning).
	www.amazon.com /Science-Sanity-Introduction-Non-Aristotelian-International/dp/0937298018 (2095 words)

	General Semantics -- Korzybski
		The term general semantics originated with Alfred Korzybski in 1933 as the name for a general theory of evaluation, which in application turned out to be an empirical science, giving methods for general human adjustment in our private, public, and professional lives.
		Korzybski, in 1933, called his theory general semantics”; because it deals with the nervous reactions of the human organism-as-a-whole-in-environments, and is much more general and organismally fundamental than the “meanings” of words as such, or Significs.
		Applied by Korzybski to our everyday lives, self-reflexiveness introduced neuro-linguistic factors important for human adjustment and maturity; i.e., the principles of different orders of abstractions, multiordinality, the circularity of human knowledge, second-order reactions, delay of reactions by space-time ordering, thalamo-cortical integration, etc.
	www.gestalt.org /semantic.htm (2317 words)

	The Search for Korzybski
		Wilson credited Korzybski with the theory of General Semantics, and with the statement "the map is not the territory".
		I doubted that his mention of Korzybski would be Robert Anton Wilson-related, but still, what would that tell me? And I spotted a reference to Korzybski in a Ted Nelson document, but that still felt too Wilsonesque for my comfort.
		Whoever Korzybski might have been, the Melvyl card catalog contained information that indicated several books written by someone named Alfred Korzybski, who lived during the period that Wilson had indicated someone named Alfred Korzybski had lived, and with the same titles that Wilson claimed Korzybski's books had.
	www.apocalypse.org /~romkey/korzybski/index.html (1167 words)

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