{"id":1188,"date":"2011-05-18T21:34:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benhauck.com\/offthemap\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2011-05-18T21:34:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:34:35","slug":"holy-korzybski-batman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/offthemap\/2011\/05\/18\/holy-korzybski-batman\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Korzybski, Batman!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perhaps you’re coming to my general semantics blog after seeing a link from my recent series of contributions to ETC: A Review of General Semantics<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 If so, welcome!<\/p>\n

Or if you aren’t aware of what I’m talking about, in ETC<\/em> 68:2 (April 2011)<\/a> I\u00a0edited together a transcript from a recording of Alfred Korzybski I came across on a record series at the Institute of General Semantics.\u00a0 It had not been released.\u00a0 My friend Victoria Libertore<\/a> voluntarily did the original transcription of the records, which I sent to her in MP3 files I created from the recordings.\u00a0 From there, I polished the transcript, correcting words and punctuation to match more closely what is on the recordings.\u00a0 Voila!<\/em>\u00a0 “New” Korzybski work!<\/p>\n

In my general semantics blog, you’ll find some of my new essays on general semantics and my explorations of its ideas.\u00a0 I’ve followed general semantics since 1994 or 1995 (I became a member of the International Society for General Semantics in 1995).\u00a0 In recent months, I’ve explored the meaning of the term “general semantics,” which seems to get its profile from the title of the major work in the field, Korzybski’s Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 I make a case that in the title, the phrase “General Semantics” actually means “General Implications.”\u00a0 Therefore, the name of our field, “general semantics” doesn’t really mean much more than “general implications,” a fact that will lead you to asking the question, “General implications of what?”<\/p>\n

I follow by arguing “General implications of adopting a\u00a0non-aristotelian system<\/em>.”\u00a0 But finding “non-aristotelian system” a bit clunky in normal parlance, I opt for the term “modern scientific thinking.”\u00a0 By that, I mean the thinking that scientists employ these days, especially in contrast to the “scientific” thinking that contemporaries of Aristotle or subsequent followers of his adopted.\u00a0 To summarize Science and Sanity<\/em>, it is a study on the general implications of adopting modern scientific thinking, particular when those adopting this kind of thinking are the unsane or insane.\u00a0 The language component in general semantics is not all that remarkable in its advice: “Change your language to fit reality.”\u00a0 It’s just that not all that many people who exhibit unsane or insane tendencies understand a modern scientific take on reality.\u00a0 Thus, they\u00a0operate delusionally.\u00a0 So proposing that the unsane and insane look at what they’re saying and change<\/em> what they’re saying to fit reality I suppose was pretty innovative at the time.\u00a0 Given how some of my friends think, act, and stress, many people still don’t get or simply resist looking at their problems with revised, more scientificaly accurate\u00a0language … so general semantics remains still pretty innovative!<\/p>\n

In this general semantics blog, I\u00a0also cover some communication theory as well as semantics (in contrast to general semantics).\u00a0 Use the Search box at the top to cover specific topics, or use the tags found at the end of essays or in the flyout above to pull up essays on topics of interest.\u00a0 I’m periodic in my writing in this blog on general semantics, and these last few months have been a little light as I cover other responsibilities in the field.\u00a0 But I love writing here, and I hope to do some more for you, so subscribe via RSS if you won’t be checking back soon.\u00a0 Thanks for stopping by, and read on!<\/p>\n

Cheers,
\nBen Hauck
\nhttp:\/\/benhauck.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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