He said that Dianetics " forms a bridge between " cybernetics and general semantics ( a set of ideas about education originated by Alfred Korzybski, which received much attention in the science fiction world in the 1940s ) a claim denied by scholars of General Semantics, including S . I . Hayakawa, who expressed strong criticism of Dianetics as early as 1951.
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"Levels of Knowing and Existence " is concerned with the principle of general semantics and toward that end provides invariable contextual insights into understanding Alfred Korzybski's " Science and Sanity ", discussing epistemological, ethical, aesthetic, etc ., problems . Given the subject matter, the book s approach, structure, and language are remarkably straightforward and relatively easy to grasp without prior study in the field.
