Insitute of General Semantics, Institut de Sémantique Générale. IWC Media Ecology Wiki / General Semantics. Summary General Semantics is a doctrine and educational discipline founded by Count Alfred Korzybski; (1879-1950) intended to improve habits of response of human beings to their environment and one another especially by training in the more critical use of words and other symbols.
General semantics is distinguished from “semantics” (the study of meaning in language) by its much broader concern with all human responses to both internal and external stimuli, and by its claims to be a specifically modern discipline dedicated to “updating” basic notions of human behavior, response, and signification for a post-Newtonian world in which dualistic thinking can no longer be maintained. General Semantics includes both a large and ambitious body of theory which claims to synthesize modern breakthroughs in physics, anthropology, psychology, linguistics and other fields, and a set of therapeutic practices for bringing “sanity” to human thought, speech, and interaction.
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