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That said, it is the one of the most difficult-to-read books I have ever run across. The book is dense, the prose a bit turgid AK was Polish and English was his fifth languagebut Science and Sanity has been for decades on the list of top ten non-fiction books that have influenced me deeply.
Science and Sanity by Alfred Korzybski, A Reader's Treasury Review by Bobby Matherne
Motivation and Personality Abraham H. Maslow Snippet view - This is done by allowing enough time for the emotional portion of the response to rise to the surface and be identified so that you don't just react to something you hear without knowing why your response came out the way kprzybski did. No trivia or quizzes yet. The seminal work in the study of semantics.
Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics
I think that is the only explanation for how I was Two of them wanted to vomit, put their hands in front of their mouths, and ran out of the lecture hall to the toilet. Servire,p. Read, highlight, and take notes, across web, tablet, and phone.
Retrieved December 21, Korzybski puts too much importance on language, and in doing so forgets economics. If I didn't understand the words and phrases the first time then repeating them several times using the same words and phrases doesn't help. Korzybski never questions his core belief that korzynski is one territory, a single objective reality that might be shared among semantically educated people, resulting in sanity for all. Feb 29, Ian rated it it was korzybskj. User Review - Flag as inappropriate Indispensable.
After being wounded in a leg and suffering other injuries, he moved to North America in first to Canada, then to the United States to coordinate the shipment of artillery to Russia. Dutton published Korzybski's first book, Manhood of Humanityin Although I couldn't make it all the way through this book when I tried in my teens, I remember being awed by some of the ideas presented in this weighty tome those that I could understand.
I wish that General Semantics had truly caught on. And secondly, Sanigy believe there is always going to be an inherent problem in "Science and Sanity" is perhaps the book that has had the most influence on my thinking.
The Institute of General Semantics. This is one of the most important books I've read. These ideas have changed the way I think, write and speak to people and have given voice to the nagging feeling I have always had that we have been doing everything fundamentally wrong. He called this awareness, this goal of his system, "consciousness of abstracting".
Jan 14, Michael Warot marked it as to-read Shelves: Return to Book Page. That being said, the book tends to repeat the same messages over and over map is not the territory, deny the is of identity. I found that Harry L.
Alfred Korzybski
Engineerphilosophermathematician. In addition to the other factors making this book a difficult korzybzki is the author's application of mathematics and physics to explain, illustrate and justify his concepts.
Aug 18, Phelan Mahegan rated it it was amazing. I was lucky I enjoy reading about math and physics, while not having studied much of the subjects in school. Dec 27, Xe Nikhil rated it it was amazing. Selected pages Title Page.
