Tuesday, July 19, 2011
From the Stray Thought Bin – 'Experts'
Some experts end up making problems overly complicated, as opposed to experts who end up making solutions as simple as possible.
Quote of the Day- Words and Deeds
"Easier said than done."
—American Folk Saying (some variant in many different cultures).
—American Folk Saying (some variant in many different cultures).
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Monday, June 20, 2011
Korzybski Biography Update-6/20/2011
Terribly remiss I have been, dear readers.
I apologize for the sparsity of my blog posts here as of late. But I have a great excuse.
We (Susan, my wife and editor, and I) just finished an almost all-consuming, two-week period of final proofreading and have now submitted the book files to the printer for publication. We expect to release the book to the public very soon. It will take a short time to get it available on Amazon.com and other places. But for those of you who have been eager to see the book, it's not long in coming now. I think you'll like it and I'm nigh sure you'll learn some surprising things about Korzybski and 'general semantics' that you didn't know before.
I apologize for the sparsity of my blog posts here as of late. But I have a great excuse.
We (Susan, my wife and editor, and I) just finished an almost all-consuming, two-week period of final proofreading and have now submitted the book files to the printer for publication. We expect to release the book to the public very soon. It will take a short time to get it available on Amazon.com and other places. But for those of you who have been eager to see the book, it's not long in coming now. I think you'll like it and I'm nigh sure you'll learn some surprising things about Korzybski and 'general semantics' that you didn't know before.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Korzybski Biography Update- June 1, 2011
Awaiting printer proofs for final editing of the long-awaited Korzybski: A Biography. Anxious readers will have the book very soon.
Monday, May 23, 2011
Sunday, May 22, 2011
How Language Shapes Thought
In the third paragraph of this important article How Language Shapes Thought cognitive psychologist/anthropologist Lera Boroditsky explains one of the reasons why so many cognitive scientists, linguistic scholars and others have ignored or dismissed Korzybski's work for so long (See for example his discussion of 'language' and 'thought' in last 1950 paper, The Role of Language in the Perceptual Processes*). Noam Chomsky's hegemonic reign over the field of linguistics and what became cognitive science, was just beginning and Korzybski's non-essentialist, non-elementalistic vision of language and human behavior which paralleled that of Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf was not going to find congenial audiences in those swayed by Chomsky's work. In 2011, that is clearly changing.
* I would have linked to the article on the Institute of General Semantics website, but it appears no longer available there.
Friday, May 20, 2011
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