It is currently in its fifth edition and has greatly helped popularize Alfred Korzybski's general semantics and semantics in general, while semantics or theory of meaning was overwhelmed by mysticism, propagandism and even scientism.
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Studying the work of such people as Einstein, Korzybski, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, LaoTzu and Klee, he kept evolving his own dynamic system of principles and concepts that both reflected and nurtured his creative journey.
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Korzybski is not recorded to have acknowledged any influence from this quarter, but he formulated general semantics during the same years that the first popularizations of Zen were becoming part of the intellectual currency of educated speakers of English.
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Science fiction writer A . E . van Vogt based the early development of Dianetics and Scientology on a novel based on General Semantics, a pseudoscience created by Alfred Korzybski for the purpose of curing personal and social issues.
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Systemantics ( a change in typography and underlining indicate that the title is better rendered as " SystemANTICS " ) is a commentary on systems theory and general semantics publications by such thinkers as Ludwig von Bertalanffy and Alfred Korzybski.
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Hayakawa read " The Tyranny of Words, " then " Science and Sanity ", and in 1939 he attended a Korzybski-led workshop conducted at the newly organized Institute of General Semantics in Chicago.
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Korzybski pointed out the circularity of many dictionary definitions, and suggested adoption of the mathematical practice of acknowledging some minimal ensemble of primitive notions as necessarily'undefined'; he chose'structure','order', and'relation '.
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Frederick Perls and Paul Goodman, founders of Gestalt therapy are said to have been influenced by Korzybski Wendell Johnson wrote " People in Quandaries : The Semantics of Personal Adjustment " in 1946, which stands as the first attempt to form a therapy from general semantics
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Besides drawing on the lifestyle and philosophical background of Zen, in India and China, Watts introduced ideas drawn from general semantics ( directly from the writings of Alfred Korzybski ) and also from Norbert Wiener's early work on cybernetics, which had recently been published.
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According to Read ( 1976 ), Kendig had " great ability as an administrator to organize, to plan, to budget, to assist in innumerable ways in launching it as the Educational Director, made it possible for Korzybski to carry out his work as lecturer and writer.
