Korzybski wrote in the preface to the third edition of Science and Sanity ( 1947 ) that general semantics " turned out to be an empirical natural science.

The structural differential was used by Korzybski to demonstrate that human beings abstract from their environments, that these abstractions leave out many characteristics, and that verbal abstractions build on themselves indefinitely, through many orders or levels, represented by seven or eight labels ( or less, or more, it is totally arbitrary how many we want to symbolize the higher levels ), chained in order.

But although many people were introduced to general semantics — perhaps the majority through Hayakawa's more limited ' semantics '— superficial lip service seemed more common than the deep internalization that Korzybski and his co-workers at the Institute aimed for.

To me the great error Korzybski made — and I carried on, financial necessity — and for which we pay the price today in many criticisms, consisted in not restricting ourselves to training very thoroughly a very few people who would be competent to utilize the discipline in various fields and to train others.

Korzybski himself acknowledged many of these influences.

Korzybski held that many people do confuse maps with territories, i. e. confuse models of reality with reality itself.

Fresco himself cites several theorists and authors for contributing to his ideas, such as Jacques Loeb, who established the Mechanistic Conception of Life ; Edward Bellamy, who wrote the extremely influential book, Looking Backward ; Thorstein Veblen, who influenced the Technocracy movement and Howard Scott, who popularized it ; Alfred Korzybski, who originated General Semantics ; H. G. Wells, and many others .< ref name =" Influences "> A Personal Interview With Jacque Fresco.

The general semantics discipline was founded by Korzybski, who gained recognition first with the publication of Manhood of Humanity ( 1921 ) and then Science and Sanity ( 1933 ).

The structural differential, patented by Korzybski in the 1920s, remained among the chief training aids to help students reach " the silent level ," a prerequisite for achieving " neurological delay.

The concept of " silence on the objective level " attributed to Korzybski and his insistence on consciousness of abstracting are parallel to some central ideas in Zen Buddhism.

:“ One of the particular strengths of this story was that it presented in dramatic form, a full year before the publication of van Vogt ’ s The World of Null-A, some of the key ideas associated with Alfred Korzybski .”

Alfred Korzybski criticized the use of the verb " to be ", and stated that, " Any proposition containing the word ' is ' its other forms ' are ,' ' be ', etc.

One day, Korzybski was giving a lecture to a group of students, and he interrupted the lesson suddenly in order to retrieve a packet of biscuits, wrapped in white paper, from his briefcase.

He pointed out the switch to me and for a moment I foolishly believed that he would let deed follow words.

In town after town my companion pointed out the Negro school and the White school, and in every instance the former made a better appearance ( it was newer, for one thing ).

Even the first wave of homesickness had passed, although there were moments when Captain Heard pointed out on his compass the direction of Bradford that she felt a little twinge at her heart.

It pointed out twenty-six instances of blasphemy in the letters, and ordered the writers to submit or force of arms would be used.

The British and other replies to that Moscow note pointed out efforts of the Communist authorities `` to integrate East Berlin into East Germany by isolating it from the outside and attempting to make it the capital of East Germany ''.

He expected Democrats to do their duty when it had been patiently pointed out to them.

Duclos, the historian, pointed out to Jean Jacques that this was impossible.

They pointed out to him.

And the thing about hurt feelings, the wet bathing suit pointed out, is that the person who has them is not quite the innocent party he believes himself to be.

The New York Central has pointed out that this control, if approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission, would give the combined C. & O. - B. & O. Railroad a total of 185 points served in common with the New York Central.

The Central has pointed out.

It has been correctly pointed out by well-informed people in the industry that it is probably unrealistic to expect a continuation of the yearly growth of 15% or better that characterized the decade of the 1950's, and that our military markets may be entering upon a new phase in which procurement of multiple weapons systems will give way to concentration of still undeveloped areas of our defense capability.

There is one exception to the above statement as has been pointed out, and that is that fluids can relax by flowing into fields of lower rates of shear, so the statement should be modified by stating that the mechanics are similar.

As long ago as 1851 it was pointed out by Niepce ( 1851 ) that there is a connection between the pituitary and the thyroid.

We pointed out that emotional excitement may lead to psychosomatic disorders and neurotic symptoms, particularly in certain types of personality, but it is also known that the reliving of a strong emotion ( `` abreaction '' ) may cure a battle neurosis.

It might be pointed out that the integrating function of religion, for good or ill, has often supported or been identified with other groupings -- political, nationality, language, class, racial, sociability, even economic.

As Yinger has pointed out, the `` reliance on symbols, on tradition, on sacred writings, on the cultivation of emotional feelings of identity and harmony with sacred values, turns one to the past far more than to the future ''.

The Lincoln Mills decision authorizes a whole new body of federal `` common law '' which, as Mr. Justice Frankfurter pointed out in dissent, leads to one of the following `` incongruities '': `` ( ( 1 ) conflict in federal and state court interpretations of collective bargaining agreements ; ;

However, there are relatively few such political constituencies, and, as has been pointed out, there is seldom a clear-cut distinction between the educational interests of one social class and those of another.

This is one difference between Bird and Dylan which should be pointed out.

The possibility of a space charge blowup of the screen crossover of the elementary electron bundles has been pointed out.

The human body -- he pointed out, for example -- required 33 units of blue light.

But it should be pointed out that some of the new watering places -- Fire Island, Nantucket, Westhampton, Long Island, for example -- tend to be homogeneously Jewish.

The conductor did recall having priests as passengers and this satisfied police, although the conductor also pointed out that in heavily Catholic Fall River there were priests riding on almost every trip the streetcar made, so Morse's statement really proved nothing.

Fleet asked the same question about Bridget, and Lizzie pointed out that as far as she knew Bridget had gone up to her room before her father's murder and came down when she called her.

In his book Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volume 1: The Dawn of Analysis Scott Soames ( pp 360 – 361 ) has pointed out that Quine's circularity argument needs two of the logical positivists ' central theses to be effective:

Although economic and personal circumstances vary widely among those now choosing apartments, Leo J. Pantas, vice president of a hardware manufacturing company, pointed out recently that many apartment seekers seem to have one characteristic in common: a desire for greater convenience and freedom from the problems involved in maintaining a house.

Eight years have passed, and the city of Genoa is still trying to recover from the many damages provoked by the rioters, mainly devoted to crash cars, setting stores on fire, robbing banks and using any heavy or pointed object as a means to provoke damage to people and objects.

David Kusche pointed out a common problem with many of the Bermuda Triangle stories and theories: " Say I claim that a parrot has been kidnapped to teach aliens human language and I challenge you to prove that is not true.

On the other hand, many writers have pointed out how this battle was a humiliation for the Italian military.

The universality of many aspects of cellular life is often pointed to as supportive evidence to the more compelling evidence listed above.

But these ethnographers also pointed out the superficiality of many such similarities.

Nancy Willard, an academic researcher and attorney, pointed out that many U. S. public schools and libraries use the same filtering software that many Christian organizations use.

Critics of Boswell have pointed out that many earlier doctrinal sources condemn homosexuality in ethical terms without prescribing a punishment, and that Boswell's citations reflected a general trend towards harsher penalties from the 12th century onwards.

Defenders of coal-tar use in sealcoat have pointed out that humans are exposed to PAHs through many pathways, and similarly that the urban environment has many potential sources of PAHs.

In fact, as pointed out by many critics since its original reception, Sgt.

" Their doctrines have numerous resemblances to those of the Bogomils and the earlier Paulicians as well as the Manicheans and the Christian Gnostics of the first few centuries AD, although, as many scholars, most notably Mark Pegg, have pointed out, it would be erroneous to extrapolate direct, historical connections based on theoretical similarities perceived by modern scholars.

As many observers have pointed out, the Drake equation is a very simple model that does not include potentially relevant parameters.

A hallmark of many fantasy elves is their pointed ears.

However, in 1971 Erik Hornung pointed out that the traits of an apparently supreme being could be attributed to many different gods, even in periods when other gods were preeminent, and further argued that references to an unspecified " god " are meant to refer flexibly to any deity.

In considering the way that films are put together, many feminist film critics have pointed to the " male gaze " that predominates in classical Hollywood filmmaking.

Critics argue that the Charter presents the history of German people as starting from the expulsions, while ignoring events like Holocaust: professor Micha Brumlik pointed out that one third of signatories were former devoted Nazis and many actively helped in realisation of Hitler's goals ; Ralph Giordano wrote in Hamburger Abendblatt " the Charter doesn't contain a word about Hitler, Auschwitz and Buchenwald.

But it is also pointed out by many researchers, with its Sillon industriel, ' Especially in the Haine, Sambre and Meuse valleys, between the Borinage and Liège, (...) there was a huge industrial development based on coal-mining and iron-making ...'.

Irenaeus pointed to Scripture as a proof of orthodox Christianity against heresies, classifying as Scripture not only the Old Testament but most of the books now known as the New Testament, while excluding many works, a large number by Gnostics, that flourished in the 2nd century and claimed scriptural authority.

He had intended the comments to be private, and ill feeling grew in the Australian camp as speculation about who leaked the incident to the press grew and many of the team privately pointed the finger at Bradman.

He hypothesised that one could view many cultural entities as replicators, and pointed to melodies, fashions and learned skills as examples.

It was much later, in the 1600s, with the increased popularity of writing, especially in the copperplate style promoted by the many printed manuals available from the ' Writing Masters ,' that quills became more pointed and flexible.

Some sociologists have also pointed out, with reference to the USA and elsewhere, that forms of racism have in many instances mutated from more blatant expressions hereof into more covert kinds ( albeit that blatant forms of hatred and discrimination still endure ).