ETC.: A Review of General Semantics

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H.J. Perkinson * OUR DEBT to fanaticism is great. The unity of our present culture, the depth and breadth of our civilization, we owe in great part to those fanatics who preceded us. Had neither the Greeks nor the Romans thought themselves superior...

Once a man is aware of the essential non-identity of all objects and the artificiality of categories, he has acquired the fundamental attitudes for proper adjusting. The insistence upon differences, upon individual treatment, upon lack of dogmatism...

David F. Mass * I WOULD LIKE TO DEDICATE this article to the memory of my late friend and mentor, D. David Bourland, Jr. I think he would have derived tremendous satisfaction from knowing that one of his disciples had found yet another use for...

Shawn Taylor * IN "The Aims and Tasks of General Semantics: Implications of the Time-Binding Theory," S. I. Hayakawa (1906-1992) distinguishes between three orientations --prescientific, antiscientific, and scientific -- and what implication...

The time has come to explore the long-neglected problems of semantics in international relations with the same intensity and ingenuity that has been devoted to the study of history and of international law and economics, and of the various forms...

"The world is full of people who really do not know who they are." They are under "the dominance of the unconscious to such an extent that they exist after the manner sleepwalkers..." "But by the extension of consciousness, human beings can escape...

While nations spend unbelievable sums in splitting atoms so that they can destroy each other more quickly, we stand in the wings talking about split infinitives. While serious scientists talk about a trip to the moon within twenty-five years, we...

Michael Moore * CAN ETYMOLOGY benefit anyone? Philologists, philosophers, and other assorted thinkers have spilt gallons of ink over the value of etymological inquiries throughout the ages. We can learn something about the attitude of the ancients...