Alfred Korzybski
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Most Influential Person Across History
Polish-American scholar and philosopher
Why Is Alfred Korzybski Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, 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. He argued that human knowledge of the world is limited both by the human nervous system and the languages humans have developed, and thus no one can have direct access to reality, given that the most we can know is that which is filtered through the brain's responses to reality. His best known dictum is "The map is not the territory".
Alfred Korzybski's Published Works
Published Works
- Science and sanity : an introduction to non-aristotelian systems and general semantics / Alfred Korzybski (1942) (581)
- Science and Sanity. (1934) (449)
- The role of language in the perceptual process (1951) (47)
- Manhood of Humanity. The Science and Art of Human Engineering. (1921) (33)
- Language Habits in Human Affairs: An Introduction to General Semantics (1943) (21)
- GENERAL SEMANTICS, PSYCHIATRY, PSYCHOTHERAPY AND PREVENTION (1941) (16)
- Time-binding, the general theory (15)
- Alexander Vasilievitch Vasiliev (July 2, 1853-October 6, 1929) (1929) (1)
- Manhood of Humanity; The Science and Art of Human Engineering. (1922) (1)
- A theory of meaning analyzed : the foreword (1942) (0)
- THE SCIENCE OF MAN (1937) (0)
- Aristotle and the Aristotelian system (1952) (0)
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