“The few first words with which mankind started its vocabulary were labels for pre-scientific ideas, naïve generalizations full of silent assumptions, objectifications, of non-existents,…Our daily speech and in very large measure our scientific language is one enormous system of such assumptions.”
—Alfred Korzybski
“Fate and Freedom” (1923/4), Alfred Korzybski Collected Writings, p. 18.
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