Korzybski, E-prime, Map & Territory

http://www.generalsemantics.org/
Call for Papers & Paper Proposals
Korzybski and
In response to the resurgence of scholarly interest in the ideas and writings of Alfred Korzybski, Corey Anton and Lance Strate are pleased to announce a call for papers for a forthcoming edited book to be published by the Institute of General Semantics. The edited collection, tentatively titled, Korzybski and will feature some of todays leading scholars and will explore and address the continued relevance of Korzybski and his practical system of general semantics.
The editors are especially interested in papers that draw out connections, points of convergence and/or divergence between Korzybski and particular thinkers, scholarly traditions, and research methodologies. Examples topics or chapters include: Korzybski and Marshall McLuhan, Korzybski and Martin Heidegger, Korzybski and Kenneth Burke, Korzybski and Transactional Psychology, Korzybski and Logic, Korzybski and Stoicism, Korzybski and Postmodernity. The editors welcome creative and innovative projects and are happy consider alternative suggestions and proposals that address the continued relevance of Korzybski and General Semantics

Prospective authors should submit completed papers, extended abstracts, or interesting papers proposals, as well as a copy of current CV to Corey Anton (antonc@gvsu.edu) and Lance Strate (Strate@Fordham.edu) by Feb. 1. 2010.

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• Korzybski
• eprime
• map
• territory
• postmodernity
• phenomenology
• General Semantics

[craigrgill]

Don't you mean to say.... "e-prime appears cult-ish to me" :D

[Professoranton]

@craigrgill :)

[firuinthehouse]

so I'm new to General Semantics, but I need a crash course in it. what would you say is a good way to get the basics down properly? What books and in what order?

Also, if curious, I made this video on my other channel, that explains Levels of Abstraction. Might be useful for people who need an animation explaining it practically :)

[Professoranton]

@firuinthehouse I would say to get the Kenneth Johnson booklet General Semantics: An outline survey.

[AntiWoo]

I like E-Prime because it serves as a simple tool to discipline myself not to state my opinions as facts. I do a lot of arguing (a.k.a. "debating") on political forums, and ever since I started posting in E-Prime I've argued myself into far fewer corners. Moreover, my opponents seem to have become frustrated and less eager to spar with me now that I don't play as fast-and-loose with my statements as they do. E-Prime seems to have elevated me slightly above the fray and given me a bit of an edge.

[Professoranton]

@AntiWoo Those seems fair to me.

[natmanprime]

the english language, understood properly, will suffice.

[discordian420]

I think that the purpose of GS/E-Prime is to promote better (and less hostile) communication more so than to elucidate a more accurate philosophy of some sort. I do agree that the map is the territory in a sense.

[summondadrummin]

Have students of e~prime ever come up with the basis for another language altogether?

[mlaithy]

@MegaMindgames choosing the color black wasn't arbitrary. Black doesn't have values (u can't talk about lighgt black and dark black). it's even not a color (it's the absence of colors) long story! but if eprime demonstrates objectivity in many fields and statements, it doen't necesserily go for perfection, i think

[MegaMindgames]

@mlaithy In fact the colours are everything but they colour they appear to be they just reflect that certain spectrum to your eye but nothing black is black

[random5241]

the territory is more then the map? maybe?

[mlaithy]

hello. emm, the E-prime principle seems objective in a lot of examples (including the onesyou mentioned). However, there are scientific statements that do not imply any sort of relativity, like colors. would it be appropriate to say that the color black seems black?or red seems red to me?I have a red book..well let's take the example of black book (because black doesn't have values when it's dark).

this book is black(objective) the book seems black (awkward) wht does E-prime say about it? thanks

[alienbaroque]

I think the point of something like E-prime is to remind the user that s/he (as the real hidden subject) is not separate from his/her action, and that those actions may have some kind of reflective/reflexive bias. But this is what we try to do when we speak of the unconscious--trying to get the observer to become more aware that s/he is part of of his/her own observations, using the objective/empirical reality of dreams, for ex., as a compass, though dreams are usually seen as anything but.