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	Institute of General Semantics: Notable Names and General Semantics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Stuart Chase, noted economist and writer, wrote the first 'popularization' of general semantics, The Tyranny of Words; in a national magazine article noting the most influential developments of the first half of the 20th century, Chase included Science and Sanity as one of the top three books.
		Al Fleishman, co-founder of the Fleishman-Hillard public relations firm based in St. Louis, MO, studied general semantics and wrote several books and pamphlets about how to apply GS principles to the challenging communications environment with inner-city youth gangs in Dialog with a Street Fighter.
		Christopher Sheldon, the courageous sailing captain and teacher whose tragic true story was recounted in the movie White Squall, was an active Trustee with the Institute of General Semantics from the mid-1950s until his death in 2002.
	www.generalsemantics.org /about/notable.htm (1004 words)

	General Semantics
		General Semantics is a school of thought founded by Alfred Korzybski in about 1933 in response to his observations that most people had difficulty defining human and social discussions and problems and could almost never predictably resolve them into elements that were responsive to successful intervention or correction.
		One discovery of General Semantics was of the role of magic in popular culture, especially notable in the use of incantations as political and advertising slogans.
		General Semantics teaches that all linguistic representations discard most of reality ("The map is not the territory; the word is not the thing defined.") and in particular that much un-sanity is caused by adherence to the Aristotelian representation of two-valued either-or logic, which Korzybski saw as being built into Indo-European language structures.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ge/General_Semantics.html (563 words)

	General Semantics Essays
		It is intended to both contribute to some ongoing debates in the politics groups and serve as an example of the methods and aims of General Semantics for people in sci.lang and rec.arts.sf-lovers that have expressed an interest in them to the author.
		It does not represent any 'official' position of the Institute for General Semantics, nor of its founders, nor of the students of GS as a group.
		General Semantics teaches us that habitual use of category errors in discourse always reflects a hidden agenda, an unadmitted (often unconscious) set of connotative 'definitions' of terms that are more important than the denotations we believe ourselves to be using.
	home.earthlink.net /~freemancp/gs-esr1.html (1377 words)

	General Semantics and Evolution.
		General Semantics is a school of language theory which has many implications for the study of human behavior.
		General Semantics stresses that imprecise communication is at the core of many human difficulties It is either at the root or a major component in marriage, job and even mental problems.
		The philosophy of General Semantics stresses that the key to both mental and physical adjustment is understanding the contrast between the mine of mankind, and the brain of animals (Chisholm 945).
	www.creationism.org /csshs/v13n2p16.htm (4590 words)

	general semantics
		As a theory, general semantics "is" a forerunner of genetic epistemology.
		General semantics views the world as multi-dimensional, multi-causal, and multi-level, and that organisms can never be isolated from their environments.
		The primary application of general semantics is in training individuals to view their environments using the general semantics world view, to think in terms of levels of abstraction, to use the extensional devices, to become aware of making assumptions, to extensionally check them out, and to be prepared for them to be wrong.
	www.xenodochy.org /gs (1273 words)

	Alfred Korzybski
		His work culminated in the founding of General Semantics, the basic ideas of which are outlined in
		In 1938 he founded the Institute of General Semantics[?]; he directed the Institute until his death in 1950.
		To express it simply, and thus inadequately, the essence of his work was the insight that the structure of language distorts our perception of reality, a failing that could be remedied by insight into that process and also by the creation of language that is structured in the same way reality is.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/al/Alfred_Korzybski.html (230 words)

	ESGS AK General Semantics Article page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		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.
		Physicians familiar with general semantics have often treated such cases successfully, applying these new extensional methods in psycho-therapy to eliminate identification of the past with the present, etc., thus re-orienting the individual in space-time.
	www.esgs.org /uk/art/ak1.htm (2316 words)

	A. E. van Vogt and the Sanity of Anarchy
		General Semantics was orignated by Count Alfred Korzybski, a Polish engineer and psychologist, living in the United States, during the period between the two world wars.
		General Semantics is described by the Encyclopaedia Britannica as, 'The study of language as a representation of reality.' and in material on the Institute of General Semantics website, as, '...the study of the relations between language, thought and behaviour; between how we talk and therefore how we think, and how we act.'
		They go to the General Semantics Institute and, after a battle in which Thorson is killed, Gosseyn finds himself alone in the deserted building with only a wounded bearded man, who reveals that he created the Gosseyn bodies by what we would now call cloning.
	vanvogt.www4.mmedia.is /anarchy.htm (3040 words)

	Still a cult
		Some wonder how General Semantics can be a cult when some quite respectable persons find value in it and when some educational institutions still teach it, at least in name.
		General Semantics can be a cult, it can be a practical method of verbal expression, and it can be 'common sense,' generally known folk wisdom passed down through the ages.
		General Semantics, in one sense of the word, the sense of Korzybski himself, was a cult from the day it was born and it remains a cult today in 2002.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/6760/still.htm (753 words)

	Nexial Institute
		There was a strong relationship in Van Vogt's mind between general semantics and its offspring, "nexialism." Nexialism is thinking and acting holistically and practically; that is, using both general semantics and logical structures to solve problems and gain understanding.
		The work of the Nexial Institute is strongly rooted in systems science and philosophy, which is generally recognized to have been conceived by Ludwig Von Bertalanffy in the 1940's, and described in his book "General System Theory" (Von Bertalanffy, 1968).
		General semantics identifies itself as being "non-Aristotelian" in that it seeks to go beyond the theory of axioms and thus the roots of Western scientific logic.
	www.nexial.org /nexialism.htm (1902 words)

	General Semantics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		General Semantics is distinct from semantics, a different subject.
		Null-I is non-Identity; General Semantics teaches that no two phenomena can ever be shown identical (if only because they may differ beyond the limits of measurement) and that it is more sane to think in terms of "sufficient similarity for the purposes of the analysis we are currently performing".
		Null-E is non-Euclideanism; General Semantics reminds us that the space we live in is not adequately described by Euclidean geometry.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/General_Semantics (3091 words)

	ESGS General Semantics page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		A semantic reaction thus indicates a global reaction of an organism to stimuli, including the part related with the meanings that this organism would assign to words.
		The Institute of General Semantics (IGS) organise each year some week-end seminars and an advanced training seminars of 5 days, for those who are looking for teacher's certification in general semantics.
		The mastery of general semantics demanding several years of practice, the existence of an association devoted to that purpose is indispensable.
	www.esgs.org /uk/gs.htm (792 words)

	Count Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski - Science and Sanity Reviewed by Bobby Matherne Editor's Verdict - A wonderful ...
		General Semantics turned out to be an empirical natural science of non-elementalistic evaluation, which takes into account the living individual, not divorcing him from his reactions altogether, nor from his neuro-linguistic and neuro-semantic environments, but allocating him a plenum of some values, no matter what.
		The analysis of such living reactions is the sole object of general semantics as a natural empirical science.
		In his life, the 'is' of identity plays an important semantic role, which, if not checked intelligently, becomes a pernicious semantic factor in his grown-up reactions, which preserve the infantile character and with which adult adjustment and semantic health is impossible.
	evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com /matherne_korzybski.htm (3082 words)

	Nicholas Johnson, CLS 2000, Assignment for March 1, 2000
		General semantics has something to offer every profession from advertising to zoo keeping -- but most of all to those wordsmiths called lawyers.
		General semantics courses were taught by charismatic professors who made the subject one of the most popular of all electives at colleges and universities.
		I titled the lecture "General Semantics: The Next Generation." (Much of the beginning of it -- which is not assigned -- is nostalgic recall of times and persons known to many in the audience that evening.
	www.uiowa.edu /~cyberlaw/cls00/masg0225.html (1049 words)

	ThisIsNotThat.com: Time-Binding Attic
		The "archives" of the Institute of General Semantics contain three generations of history - not only in terms of the institution and "the work" of general semantics, but also as a fascinating slice of 20th century American living.
		Let me add to that the usual general semantics caveat that "more can always be said", and I'll begin this series by relating a few historical items pertaining to the principal function of the Institute of General Semantics - to educate and train individuals to apply the methodology of general semantics in their daily living.
		The Institute's next summer seminar-workshop is scheduled for July 15-19, 2002, on the campus of Alverno College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
	www.thisisnotthat.com /gs/snooping.html (2634 words)

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		The awards are given annually to "outstanding teachers of general semantics." General semantics includes the study of human perception and the communication process.
		An award-winning journalist, Hoffmann has used general semantics to create a course called "Critical Thinking and the Journalist," and as the basis of media literacy programs for middle schools and high schools.
		He sits on the board of trustees of the Institute of General Semantics and the International Society for General Semantics, and is the founder of the Midwest Society for General Semantics.
	www.uwm.edu /News/report/old/june97/Hoffmann.html (278 words)

	News Korzybski's General Semantics -- August 16, 2006
		Contrary to the notion of scientism, generalized science methods ("consciousness of abstracting") can be applied to any area of life.
		Semantic factors in the ascent of the West and the decline of Islam.
		Charlotte Schuchardt Read, Korzybski's assistant from 1939 to 1950 and former director of the Institute of General Semantics, died July 25, 2002 at age 92.
	www.mcckc.edu /~lewis/gsnews.htm (2116 words)

	A. E. Van Vogt and General Semantics
		A better introduction can be found on the pages of the Institute of General Semantics that was founded by Alfred Korzybski and incorporated in 1938.
		Institute of General Semantics (IGS) was founded by Korzybski and incorporated in 1938.
		The International Society for General Semantics (ISGS) was founded in 1943 by S. Hayakawa and is also very active today.
	www.roger-russell.com /sffun/nulla.htm (2678 words)

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		Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-aristotelian Systems and General Semantics is a word portrait of his own struggle, the record of the developing of his new system, his 'spiral' way of analyzing, and the serious reader must work through it with him to arrive at an understanding of what he tried to convey.
		He was convinced that "the man comes before his work," and that therefore the study of general semantics naturally begins with the incorporation of its methods in an individual's own processes of evaluation.
		He was analyzing the humanly disastrous effects of dictatorships in general, the evaluations of the people of the U.S.S.R. and their leaders in historical perspective, their socio-cultural milieu, some deeper aspects of symbolism, etc., in relation to the time-binding theory.
	futurepositive.synearth.net /2003/11/14?print-friendly=true (6016 words)

	TIME.com: New Kind of Sense -- Aug. 11, 1941 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		All disciples of Count Alfred Korzybski (founder of general semantics), all men who had applied general semantics to their various callings, they included professors, students, lawyers, doctors, psychiatrists, dentists, newspapermen, a musician, a movie producer.
		General semantics is not to be confused with semantics, the science of meanings, whose chief exponent is Harvard's Professor Ivor Armstrong Richards, and chief application, Basic English.
		At his Institute of General Semantics in Chicago, which he founded three years ago (TIME, Nov. 21, 1938), one of Korzybski's favorite lecture stunts is to summon a girl student to the platform, call her names, slap her face.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,765903,00.html (487 words)

	Ethel Longstreet - Viewpoints Institute
		Bois became a Vice President and Trustee of the Institute of General Semantics, and served on the Board of the International Society for General Semantics, becoming a frequent contributor to the Bulletin and ETC., the respective journals of these organizations.
		Bois' development of the matrix A Semantic Transactor was a path through the tangled forest of specializations into a clearing with a view of the whole.
		In October, 1959, Samuel Bois and I joined in a symbiotic relationship : Bois as Director of Education and Research and I as Executive Director of Viewpoints Institute : a center for guided awareness, where the recent sciences of man, the new art forms, and general semantics were used to facilitate self-understanding, self-acceptance, and selfmanagement.
	www.stephenlongstreet.com /viewpoints.htm (1428 words)

	Heinlein General Semantics Information
		Last fall, the Institute for General Semantics asked Steve Stockdale, one of its Board Trustees (and a personal friend of mine), to organize and catalogue the Institute’s archives and library.
		General Semantics concepts and references (obvious and sometimes not-so-obvious) crop up frequently in Heinlein’s works, letters, and conversations.
		Anyone investigating General Semantics will find the websites and organizations - instructive and pleasing reading, in ways that will remind you very much of the way that Heinlein thought, wrote, and behaved.
	www.heinleinsociety.org /rah/history/GeneralSemanticsInfo.html (1297 words)

	Institute of General Semantics: FAQs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Since language provides the means and the environment by which this evaluative process occurs, much of general semantics deals with studying the effects of language (and other symbol systems) on our behavior, and vice-versa.
		In this case, the word general does not serve as an adjective denoting a type of semantics - instead, both words need to be accepted together as a unique term.
		As we are interested in the relation of words and facts, etc., I introduced the term General Semantics to indicate a general theory of values, a general theory of evaluation of facts, relations, 'feelings', etc., not of meaning by mere verbal definition.
	time-binding.org /about/faqs.htm (381 words)

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		Institut Élie Cartan of the Université Henri Poincaré in Nancy.
		Peripatetic Seminar on Sheaves and Logic PSSL 75 The 75th meeting of the Peripatetic Seminar on Sheaves and Logic was held at the Institut Mittag-Leffler, Stockholm, on the week-end of 9-10 June 2001.
		The meeting may be seen as a satelitte event of the Logic Year, which is taking place at the Mittag-Leffler Institute; a number of colleagues with interest in Sheaves and Logic are scheduled to be present in Stockholm during the period, in the context of the Logic Year.
	www.mta.ca /~cat-dist/categories.html (3848 words)

	Bruce Eisner's Vision Thing: The Map is Not the Territory: Institute of General Semantics
		The Map is Not the Territory: Institute of General Semantics
		I found the Institute of General Semantics while going through results from Brainboost in the previous post.
		General Semeantics's most important notion is" "The map is not the territory.
	www.bruceeisner.com /new_culture/2005/03/institute_of_ge.html (464 words)

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		He observed that animals by nature were mere hunters and gatherers or "space-binders" in their pursuit of food, whereas humans practiced agriculture, reflecting a human capacity to anticipate needs, learn from experiences and readily transmit these experiences as symbols to succeeding generations.
		His work culminated in the founding of General Semantics, the basic ideas of which are outlined in Science and Sanity which was published in 1933.
		In 1938 he founded the Institute of General Semantics; he directed the Institute until his death, due to a coronary thrombosis, in 1950.
	www.angelfire.com /scifi2/rsolecki/alfred_korzybski.html (611 words)

	General Semantics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		General Semantics is a science developed by Count Alfred Korzybski and many others that deals with the relationships between what goes on in your thoughts, and what goes on in the rest of the world.
		It is dedicated to helping the individual to be better able to operate in any given environment through the process of helping them have a map of the environment that is the best approximation of reality that their experience so far will let them have.
		There seems to be a similar ethos between the people who use general semantics and various other communities.
	www.xyroth-enterprises.co.uk /genseman.htm (307 words)

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