In this video, we discuss Alfred Korzybski's General Semantics and how we can use it to understand the relationship between language and communication. We delve onto the three principles of General Semantics and make use of those to interpret the underlying abstractions on words.
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Recommended resource: Richard Budd, “General Semantics: An Approach to Human Communication,” ,in Approaches to Human Communication, Richard Budd and Brent Ruben (eds.), Spartan Books, New York, 1972, pp. 97-119.
Original source: Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity, 3d edition, International Non-Aristotelian Library, Lakeville, Conn., 1948.
Interpretation,: Wendell Johnson, People in Quandaries, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1946.
Interpretation,: S. I. Hayakawa, Zanguage in Thought and Action, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 5th ed. New York, 1990. Intevpretation,: Irving Lee, Language Habits in Human Affairs, Harper, New York, 1941.
