Fantastic! Stuart Chase did an amazing job making bringing clarity to something as confusing as semantics. I read this book a few years back and must say it has changed the way I filter content in my reality. Great job brother
i recommend checking out a person called Heron Stone. He's very knowledgeable in this area. his website is called gendo (dot) net. He's available on skype if you'd like to talk to him. A great guy!
As far as Quine's work goes, The Two Dogmas of Empiricism is a great article to start with, and if you're up to it I'd augment that with Ontological Relativity. If you're looking for another book-length work, his work in Word and Object might be what you want, though I haven't read that and can't be certain.
For responses to Quine, I remember liking Donald Davidson, though I couldn't name a good article off the top of my head.
It's hard to tell from so little info, but between language as a system of referents and the "operational" perspective on questions, this sounds like logical positivism. LP grew out of misreading Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, and W's rejection of both LP and his own work culminates in his daunting-yet-mindblowing work, Philosophical Investigations. However, if you're looking for a more direct response to these ideas, try reading W.V.O. Quine.
ToW is the best book Ive ever read. All our problems start in semantics. I can see the distorted social matrix now and why is it. People doesn´t know how to talk. Next I recommend you: "The best that money can buy". Saludos!
@kmanpt hey, i started reading science and sanity, it's pretty difficult, i got through the first 7 chapters, would you say a reading of tyranny of words is a good primer for science and sanity?
Stuart chase makes this a very easy-to-read and exciting book. It actually does a great job in mapping some of Korzybski fellow Scientists such as c k hodgen, i a richards, j betham, etc. it is very important to understand that very different people contributed onto this "gold-vein" field.
Very interesting. One of the things that Im bothered by is how society has become such a "euphemisic" society. Like "racism" becomes an "ethic disagreement" Idk im bothered by that. lol
@ZeitgeistUniversity That would be an example of more than one term referring to the same referent. Chase himself says that the "unnecessary" parts of language (like many synonyms) are acceptable so long they're used CONSCIOUSLY. I believe it's things like synonyms that give languages their richness of meaning. But in your example, the synonym may have come into use because it has LESS meaning. It strikes me as a form of dishonesty. Jacque often talks about the need to reform our language.
@SecondVerseSociety yeah dishonesty is actually the word i was looking for thanks. Oh and by the way its good to know that your interested in this type of stuff. Im surrounded by cerebral insufficents on face book and real life. lol
Try S.I. Hayakawa... language in thought and action
fudpuckle 1 month ago
Fantastic! Stuart Chase did an amazing job making bringing clarity to something as confusing as semantics. I read this book a few years back and must say it has changed the way I filter content in my reality. Great job brother
functionalpatterns 2 months ago
Hey, I use words to communicate. ill go read this book.
BipolarPuffin 3 months ago
i recommend checking out a person called Heron Stone. He's very knowledgeable in this area. his website is called gendo (dot) net. He's available on skype if you'd like to talk to him. A great guy!
screenflicker1 3 months ago
As far as Quine's work goes, The Two Dogmas of Empiricism is a great article to start with, and if you're up to it I'd augment that with Ontological Relativity. If you're looking for another book-length work, his work in Word and Object might be what you want, though I haven't read that and can't be certain.
For responses to Quine, I remember liking Donald Davidson, though I couldn't name a good article off the top of my head.
SomewhatStaid 4 months ago
It's hard to tell from so little info, but between language as a system of referents and the "operational" perspective on questions, this sounds like logical positivism. LP grew out of misreading Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, and W's rejection of both LP and his own work culminates in his daunting-yet-mindblowing work, Philosophical Investigations. However, if you're looking for a more direct response to these ideas, try reading W.V.O. Quine.
SomewhatStaid 4 months ago
langauge replaces reality with words
MicahBuzan 5 months ago
ToW is the best book Ive ever read. All our problems start in semantics. I can see the distorted social matrix now and why is it. People doesn´t know how to talk. Next I recommend you: "The best that money can buy". Saludos!
pablogrebe 7 months ago
yep
TZMrazvitie 10 months ago
Hello, Friend
I agree, you read and digest correctly, in my view
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Mothuk 1 year ago
very good book. it's a good start for Alfred Korzybski's world of General Semantics.
kmanpt 1 year ago
@kmanpt hey, i started reading science and sanity, it's pretty difficult, i got through the first 7 chapters, would you say a reading of tyranny of words is a good primer for science and sanity?
dvzqz87 8 months ago
@dvzqz87 i would say exactly that :)
Stuart chase makes this a very easy-to-read and exciting book. It actually does a great job in mapping some of Korzybski fellow Scientists such as c k hodgen, i a richards, j betham, etc. it is very important to understand that very different people contributed onto this "gold-vein" field.
happy reading!
kmanpt 8 months ago
@kmanpt awesome thanks
dvzqz87 8 months ago
Very interesting. One of the things that Im bothered by is how society has become such a "euphemisic" society. Like "racism" becomes an "ethic disagreement" Idk im bothered by that. lol
ZeitgeistUniversity 1 year ago
@ZeitgeistUniversity That would be an example of more than one term referring to the same referent. Chase himself says that the "unnecessary" parts of language (like many synonyms) are acceptable so long they're used CONSCIOUSLY. I believe it's things like synonyms that give languages their richness of meaning. But in your example, the synonym may have come into use because it has LESS meaning. It strikes me as a form of dishonesty. Jacque often talks about the need to reform our language.
SecondVerseSociety 1 year ago
@SecondVerseSociety yeah dishonesty is actually the word i was looking for thanks. Oh and by the way its good to know that your interested in this type of stuff. Im surrounded by cerebral insufficents on face book and real life. lol
ZeitgeistUniversity 1 year ago