In a small office two blocks from the University of Chicago campus, shiny-pated. khaki-clad Count Alfred Korzybski toys with an odd little implement. He calls it the “structural differential.” It ...

ETC: A Review of General Semantics is a quarterly journal founded in 1943 by the International Society for General Semantics. ISGS merged with the Institute of General Semantics in 2003 and IGS has ...

ETC: A Review of General Semantics is a quarterly journal founded in 1943 by the International Society for General Semantics. ISGS merged with the Institute of General Semantics in 2003 and IGS has ...

Last week 200 sworn enemies of Aristotelian logic gathered at the University of Denver for the Second American Congress on General Semantics. All disciples of Count Alfred Korzybski (founder of ...

What if the way you see things misguides your mind? How does our use of language influence our perception of the world? These and other such questions are central to General Semantics, a philosophy of ...

In a recent post, I wrote about how the collection of grievances towards family members--as expressed in Prince Harry’s book Spare--is not a mature (even if for him lucrative) lifestyle choice. While ...

Researchers have investigated the shared and unique neural processes that underlie different types of long-term memory: general semantic, personal semantic and episodic memory. Their study, published ...