Alfred Korzybski

Thinkers1879 to 1950Philosopher (general semantics)

Works

  • A Non-Aristotelian System and Its Necessity for Rigour in Mathematics and Physics, paper to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, New Orleans, 1931
  • Science and Sanity, International Non-Aristotelian Library, 1933

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A Polish American scholar who founded general semantics. His dictum that the map is not the territory holds that our words and models are abstractions from reality and must not be mistaken for it.

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