Category: General semantics

One of these was Polish Philosopher Alfred Korzybski's General semantics, which was espoused in the US by Stuart Chase.

General semantics ' view of " time-binding " and modern theories of scenario analysis and financial risk ( based on statistics ) emphasize a need to keep time frames of measurement and analysis carefully aligned.

* General semantics

Category: General semantics

General semantics is the common term for a discipline begun in the 1920s that seeks to eliminate identification in human evaluational reactions, resulting in consciousness of abstracting.

After partial launches under the names " human engineering " and " humanology ," Polish-American originator Alfred Korzybski ( 1879 – 1950 ) fully launched the program as " general semantics " in 1933 with the publication of Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics.

General semantics is not generalized semantics.

" General semantics postulates that most people " identify ," or fail to differentiate the serial stages or " levels " within their own neuro-evaluative processing.

In introductory remarks to the participants, Korzybski said: General semantics formulates a new experimental branch of natural science, underlying an empirical theory of human evaluations and orientations and involving a definite neurological mechanism, present in all humans.

General semantics accumulated only a few early experimental validations.

until 1970 — Korzybski and his followers at the Institute of General Semantics began to complain that Hayakawa had wrongly coopted general semantics.

Other institutions supporting or promoting general semantics in the 21st century include the New York Society for General Semantics, the European Society for General Semantics, the Australian General Semantics Society, and the Balvant Parekh Centre for General Semantics and Other Human Sciences ( Baroda, India ).

* Infinite-valued determinism: General semantics regards the problem of ' indeterminism vs. determinism ' as the failure of pre-modern epistemologies to formulate the issue properly as the failure to consider or include all factors relevant to a particular prediction, and failure to adjust our languages and linguistic structures to empirical facts.

General semantics resolves the issue in favor of determinism of a special kind called ' infinite-valued ' determinism which always allows for the possibility that relevant ' causal ' factors may be ' left out ' at any given date, resulting in, if the issue is not understood at that date, ' indeterminism ', which simply indicates that our ability to predict events has broken down, not that the world is ' indeterministic '.

General semantics considers all human behavior ( including all human decisions ) as, in principle, fully determined once all relevant doctrinal and linguistic factors are included in the analysis, regarding theories of ' free will ' as failing to include the doctrinal and linguistic environments as environments in the analysis of human behavior.

General semantics has important links with analytic philosophy and the philosophy of science ; it could be characterized without too much distortion as applied analytic philosophy.

General semantics has survived most profoundly in the cognitive therapies that emerged in the 1950s and 1960s.

* People in Quandaries: the semantics of personal adjustment by Wendell Johnson, 1946 — still in print from the Institute of General Semantics.

General semantics in art education.

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