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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 60, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedPart II Part I of this article appeared in ETC, vol. 59, no. 4, Winter 2 002-2003. The First Verbal Level: Description By using language, we can assign symbols, in this case words, to our perceptions and...
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 73, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedI first came across S.I. Hayakawa's "Popular Songs vs. The Facts of Life" many years ago when I was a doctoral student in the Media Ecology program at NYU. At the time, I was researching the consequences of electronic...
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 77, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: ETC: A Review of General Semantics is, in the present day, the official journal of the Institute of General Semantics, but has a history that dates back to 1943, the founding of the Society for General...
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 75, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: In this article, a judgmental orientation is proposed as a complement in general semantics to extensional and intensional orientations. A judgmental orientation might contribute to reducing confusion and...
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 58, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTo begin with, I should like to express my gratitude to Professor Bures for his thoughtful reading of my book and for the cooperative and scientific spirit of his critique. He is right in saying that at present there is...
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 50, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedPeople had always asked about general semanticist, professor and former US Sen Don Hayakawa and their impressions of him depended on how they knew him. His general semantics background has greatly influenced his...
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 70, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewedhave been thinking for some time about the question concerning poetry, in large part due to the many readers new to the pages of ETC who oftentimes show surprise when they notice the poems--oftentimes stating, "Wow, you...
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 68, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction In Genesis (6:15), God instructed Noah to build the ark. Jehovah specified these dimensions to Noah: "The length of the ark shall he three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height...
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 67, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn Language in Thought and Action, the most popular and best selling of all books on general semantics, S. I. Hayakawa devotes an entire chapter to "Poetry and Advertising," an odd couple if every there was one (quotes...
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 60, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCONSIDER wind, water, and fire. We can assign a multiplicity of uses to any one of these. We can use air for inflating rubber rafts, spraying paint, cooling and heating buildings, or for jackhammering tough concrete...
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 60, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed"Almost from the beginning, confusion arose regarding the two 'official' GS organizations that operated independently out of two separate offices in Chicago. " ********** THIS YEAR marks three noteworthy...
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 67, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis essay was drafted for presentation at the 2009 International Conference of the Institute of General Semantics, and represents the first in a series of reflections addressing contemporary issues of relevance to...
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From:Social Justice (Vol. 46, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedFOR MANY COLLEGE CAMPUSES IN THE UNITED STATES, 2017 WAS a tumultuous year. A series of aggressive executive orders, including the rescinding of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and the...
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 59, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedShawn 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...
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 70, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedFollowing is the introduction to the S. I. Hayakawa tribute by the then-editor of ETC., Jeremy Klein. S.I. HAYAKAWA (1906-1992) Co-founder of ETC, and its editor for more than a quarter century, S. I. Hayakawa...
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 59, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedINTRODUCTION Time-Binding In 1921, Alfred Korzybski, a Polish-American trained in mathematics and engineering, published Manhood of Humanity. In this book he held that humanity is a class of life distinctly...
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 59, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed"I noted the emphasis on the two fundamental questions that constitute the foundation of scientific cognition, 'What do you mean?' and 'How do you know?"' Anatol Rapoport WHEN ANATOL RAPOPORT wrote his life story,...
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 58, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedS. I. HAYAKAWA [*] HE AIMS AND TASKS of general semantics, however numerous they may seem to be to the many students of the subject who are busy applying its formulations to the sciences, to humanistic studies, and...
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 59, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedLADIES AND GENTLEMEN: It would seem the utmost effrontery on my part to speak to you on the subject of the psychological problems of being Negro. I am not a Negro, and never have been. Hence, if any of you want to raise...