ETC.: A Review of General Semantics

FIFTY YEARS AGO IN ETC Our body of scientific knowledge is not spread evenly over all possible subject matter. People have been led to examine this or that facet of the universe for this or that reason; at any one moment there exists a variety of...

The counselor who employs general semantics in his professional life sees the client in a different light. Information which has hitherto been routinely entered on the data sheet during an initial interview takes on new meanings, for the counselor...

In a sense, 1849 was the beginning of a century of scientific optimism. Sharing this optimism, Bushnell was among those who stood for a language rooted in the exact, empirically demonstrated relations of fact. Like most of the men of his day - who...

Marriages are said to be made in Heaven, which may be why they don't work here on Earth. Thomas Szasz, The Untamed Tongue Like many married couples, Carol and Steve agreed "perfectly on what was wrong with their marriage - the other person's...

The tricks which politicians have played with language through the ages to lead and to mislead people is the subject of a large literature. Usually the discussion is confined to the past rather than the present for the simple reason that current circumlocutions...

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