Korzybski

On one hand, Korzybski suggests lowering expectations for the sake of reducing semantic shocks.

The War is the immaturity or childishness and we need to move towards the Manhood of Humanity (Korzybski, 1931/2001).

Not rejecting Aristotle and yet transcending to non-Aristotelian stance, Korzybski restored the flow of a melting clean Heraclitan dynamic continuum view of a process world, a frog leap like from Newtonian mechanistic world to the quantum world of multiple possibilities, probabilities, and plausibilities.

Neil, along with Christine and Terry, regarded Korzybski and his work as foundational, if not essential--just as they regarded, in the same way, the significant others working in the GS tradition, including Hayakawa and Wendell Johnson, whose book People in Quandaries was part of the "canon" that was the media ecology reading list, and which I read during my first-year doctoral seminar.

As Korzybski stated this principle, "We see that a large majority of the terms we use are names for infinite-valued stages of processes with a changing content.

The fourth essay is squarely about Korzybski's theory of time binding and the binding biases of time.

(Alfred's father had inherited another estate as well as other properties in Warsaw but had given them away to his brothers.) Without records, destroyed as the result of two World Wars, Korzybski later estimated Rudnik's size as somewhere from five to eight hundred acres, an average size estate for nobility with means.

In December 1915 Korzybski arrived in the United States as an artillery expert.

My first impulse was to dismiss Korzybski as a crackpot.

--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.

In it, Alfred Korzybski discusses the notion of time-binding, which is the ability of human beings to pass information in symbolic form across generations.

Although the concept of a Vulcan mind meld has continued to be a futuristic dream in the cultural consciousness, the conceptual notion of moving information in and out across space and time in nothing new to general semanticists; for the idea lies at the heart of Korzybski's theoretical model of human thought.

Alfred Korzybski points us in the direction of an answer when he stated that everyone works and studies different things, but they all miss one most important concept, which is, the definition of Man.