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	<title>Off the Map</title>
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		<title>What Are the Implications?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to give you some sentences.  You tell me what they imply.
&#8216;Barack Obama will win a second term as U.S. President.
&#8216;I have cancer.
&#8216;I&#8217;m a Vegan.
&#8216;4 out of 5 dentists would recommend sugarless gum to patients who chew gum.
&#8216;Osama bin Laden has been killed.
&#8216;Osama bin Laden has been murdered.
&#8216;The U.S. murdered Osama bin Laden.
&#8216;The U.S. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benhauck.com/offthemap/2011/06/25/what-are-the-implications/</link>
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		<title>Manuals and Other Time-Binders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently wrote a few manuals to help document methods for an organization.  In essence, I wrote them describing what I do so that should I become incapacitated, there is instruction on what I did to help a successor along.
In describing these manuals, I described them as &#8220;time-binding manuals.&#8221;  While I was definitely referring to general semantics with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benhauck.com/offthemap/2011/06/19/manuals-and-other-time-binders/</link>
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		<title>Holy Korzybski, Batman!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps you&#8217;re coming to my general semantics blog after seeing a link from my recent series of contributions to ETC: A Review of General Semantics.  If so, welcome!
Or if you aren&#8217;t aware of what I&#8217;m talking about, in ETC 68:2 (April 2011) I edited together a transcript from a recording of Alfred Korzybski I came across [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benhauck.com/offthemap/2011/05/18/holy-korzybski-batman/</link>
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		<title>What We Call &#8220;Communication&#8221;: Notes on Reading Intentional and Unintentional Signals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I was thinking about communication, and what gets called &#8220;communication.&#8221;  It seems to me that &#8220;communication&#8221; (the word) stands for the transmission of signals.  Something emits a signal, and something else reads the signal.  The signal has implications, and those implications are what is &#8220;read.&#8221;
Traditional communication goes like this: I write the following sentence [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benhauck.com/offthemap/2011/03/21/what-we-call-communication-notes-on-reading-intentional-and-unintentional-signals/</link>
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		<title>On Meaning: Verbal Implications vs. Non-Verbal Implications</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At some point in your life, you may have wondered what &#8220;meaning&#8221; means.  Truth be told, it can mean a number of different things.  This post aims to help you understand some basic differences among the various meanings.
Implications
First of all, when talking about the word &#8220;meaning,&#8221; it is very helpful to throw the word &#8220;mean&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benhauck.com/offthemap/2011/02/23/on-meaning-verbal-implications-vs-non-verbal-implications/</link>
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		<title>Semantics: The Study of Implication (A Dramatic Reframing)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this essay, I would like to make a formal submission to the semantics community to retrain its focus on what I believe is the root interest in the field.  I speak here of the field of semantics, not the field of general semantics.  While I talk in this forum usually of general semantics, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benhauck.com/offthemap/2011/02/20/semantics-the-study-of-implication-a-dramatic-reframing/</link>
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		<title>Indexes, Labels, Undefined Terms, Oh My!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alfred Korzybski puts a lot of importance on the use of extensional devices to aid in a person&#8217;s becoming more extensional.  By that he means becoming more oriented to and aware of the silent level, also known as the non-verbal level.  One particular device he promotes is indexing.  Indexing is the use [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benhauck.com/offthemap/2011/01/26/indexes-labels-undefined-terms-oh-my/</link>
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		<title>Meaning, Definition, Implication</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We assume that when people use words, those words have some kind of meaning.  When we don&#8217;t know the meaning of a word, we consult the dictionary.  The dictionary provides a definition for the word.  That definition is supposed to help guide understanding about what that word meant when that person said it.
Truth be told, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benhauck.com/offthemap/2011/01/24/meaning-definition-implication/</link>
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		<title>Korzybskiism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alfred Korzybski introduced his notion of non-aristotelian thinking over three editions of his book Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics.
One stumbling block for people learning about his ideas (contained within the subject called &#8220;general semantics&#8221;) is the term &#8220;non-aristotelian.&#8221;  Readers probably don&#8217;t know what &#8220;aristotelian&#8221; means.  If they think they do, they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benhauck.com/offthemap/2011/01/22/korzybskiism/</link>
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		<title>When You Hear the Term &#8220;General Semantics,&#8221; Think of Non-Aristotelian Thinking &#8230; Then Ask, &#8220;What&#8217;s That?&#8221; and Listen for the Answer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The title says it all.
My recent explorations of general semantics have led me to understand its name (&#8220;general semantics&#8221;) means &#8220;general implications.&#8221;
Tracing its name back to the title of Alfred Korzybski&#8217;s first book on the topic, Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics, I recently figured that the name de-emphasized a subject [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benhauck.com/offthemap/2011/01/20/when-you-hear-the-term-general-semantics-think-of-non-aristotelian-thinking-then-ask-whats-that/</link>
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