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@clive snaps pencil with googly eyes and then throws matchbox

#Anthropomorphism #AlfredKorzybski

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
-- Alfred Korzybski

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AlfredKorzybski #Doubt #Knowledge #Life

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Kayaks #Everglades #Florida

Today I encountered this 1958 edition of Korzybski's 1933 proto-cybernetic magniloquent magnum opus: I've come across references to his work often enough to not hesitate too long, even though I don't think we'll become good friends.

#AlfredKorzybski #GeneralSemantics #SystemsThatMatter

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
-- Alfred Korzybski

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AlfredKorzybski #Doubt #Knowledge #Life

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Seashells #Everglades #Florida

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
-- Alfred Korzybski

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AlfredKorzybski #Doubt #Knowledge #Life

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #NewMexico

Only #DonaldFagen would bring #AlfredKorzybski and #JeanShepherd together. We review #EminentHipsters: http://wp.me/P23AlC-vF #1960s

Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics 5th Edition by Alfred Korzybski (PDF)
Author: Alfred Korzybski
File Type: PDF
Download at https://sci-books.com/science-and-sanity-an-introduction-to-non-aristotelian-systems-and-general-semantics-5th-edition-0937298018/
#General, #AlfredKorzybski

Is it possible for me to talk about advertising & specialization without invoking #AlfredKorzybski? Dan Englander finds out on episode 124 of his podcast: https://www.salesschema.com/martin-bihl-on-a-lifetime-of-creative-direction/ #marketing @DansPalace @salesschema #creativity @TheAgencyReview #Zipatoni @RenegadeLLC #advertising

@anathema_device
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And folk getting out over their skis:
" 2021 review .. ashwagandha ...“small but significant effect on overall sleep”
vs
Musgrave, “Is there any point in buying expensive supplements with the possibility of getting liver damage when there’s no really significant benefit to be had?”

Sometimes skeptics seem to lack rigor.

And do avoid heavy metal intakes.

cf #MartinGardner on #GeneralSemantics & #AlfredKorzybski
https://www.academia.edu/1067337/In_The_Name_Of_Skepticism_Martin_Gardners_Misrepresentations_of_General_Semantics

Alfred Korzybski

#Livre #Mastolivre #AlfredKorzybski #Comprendre

Maps
"A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness." — Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity

“A map is the greatest of all epic poems. Its lines and colors show the realization of gre
https://alexandersmap.com/2024/02/14/maps/
#Travel #Exploration #History #Learning #PersonalGrowth #Poetry #AlfredKorzybski #EncouragementToColonies #GilbertGrosvenor #TheSecretLifeOfWalterMitty #WilliamAlexander

"A Non-Aristotelian System and Its Necessity for Rigour In Mathematics and Physics", Alfred Korzybski (1931) [pdf]

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/A-NON-ARISTOTELIAN-SYSTEM-AND-ITS-NECESSITY-FOR-IN-Korzybski/c29161b8e0971844c0919ea070f6868d28df7adf

Direct PDF link: http://esgs.free.fr/uk/art/sands-sup3.pdf

Paper is source of the phrase "map-terrain relation", a/k/a "the map is not the territory".

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%E2%80%93territory_relation

#AlfredKorzybski #MapTerritoryRelation

Slide easily

There are two ways to slide easily through life: Namely, to believe everything, or to doubt everything; Both ways save us from thinking.

~ Alfred Korzybski

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Sliding without thinking

There are two ways to slide easily through life: Namely, to believe everything, or to doubt everything; Both ways save us from thinking.

~ Alfred Korzybski

slip:4a735.

Recently I’ve noticed several conversations where the topic of extremes has come up. I’m not certain this is new, only that my noticing it is new. The idea that we each fall somewhere on the spectrum of whatever-it-is we care to talk about is not new. And I’m absolutely not implying that moderation is always better; It is not necessarily true that the correct viewpoint is towards the middle.

What I am saying—what I’ve been recently noticing—is that the people towards the ends of the spectrum of whatever topic you care to consider are the louder people. There’s always a majority of people between the extremes, who aren’t as vocal. (Who don’t speak, write, nor post as much as those toward the extremes. “Fool and fanatics” as it were.

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The Trouble with Harry’s grammar

Alfred Hitchcock’s comedy-thriller The Trouble with Harry (1955), amidst all its talk of murder and romance, has a fun little exchange of sociolinguistic interest between John Forsythe (‘Sam Marlowe’) and Edmund Gwenn (‘Capt. Albert Wiles’):

Marlowe’s correction is notable for being relatively polite. Those who correct others’ speech uninvited often do so in a rude and judgemental way. Marlowe corrects Wiles gently and off-handedly, as though automatically correcting a child. Indeed, Wiles doesn’t even notice and reacts as if Marlowe had merely echoed him. For good measure he adds another nonstandard usage: past tense say for said.

That Miles doesn’t pick up on the prescriptive nudge also chimes with what happens when children have their speech corrected – they tend to repeat what they said rather than immediately adopt the ‘proper’ form. Abby Kaplan, in her excellent book about language myths, Women Talk More than Men, reviews the research and concludes:

Some parents tend to repeat or expand on their children’s utterances, but it is unclear whether children actually use this kind of feedback to correct their own speech. Since there are societies in which this kind of interaction is rare, it is unlikely that repetitions and expansions are absolutely necessary for language acquisition.

Of course, Captain Wiles has already fully acquired his language: it’s just that the variety or dialect he uses differs in some respects from standardized English, prompting Marlowe’s useless intervention.

The script for The Trouble with Harry was written by John Michael Hayes. I don’t know if the same exchange appears in the source novel by Jack Trevor Story, but Hitchcock obviously liked it. He featured another linguistic allusion, to Alfred Korzybski and his General Semantics, in The Birds:

Hitchcock’s interest in usage also manifests in a letter he wrote to Ernest Lehman, writer of North by Northwest, in which he wondered, in a parenthetical aside, if his use of while should be whilst. I covered the whilst, amongst, amidst issue in a previous post.