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Alfred Korzybski [1879-1950] Polish

Rank: 108
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Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski was a Polish-American independent scholar who developed a field called general semantics, which he viewed as both distinct from, and more encompassing than, the field of semantics.

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God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.	Forgiveness, God	101
If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.		102
Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.		103
There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.		104
Whatever you say it is, it isn't.		105
Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.		106
If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.		107

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