Alfred Korzybski
Alfred Korzybski
Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybskiwas a Polish-American independent scholar who developed a field called general semantics, which he viewed as both distinct from, and more encompassing than, the field of semantics. He argued that human knowledge of the world is limited both by the human nervous system and the languages humans have developed, and thus no one can have direct access to reality, given that the most we can know is that which is filtered through the brain's responses to reality...
NationalityPolish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth3 July 1879
CountryPoland
The only usefulness of a map or a language depends on the similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map-languages.
There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everythingor to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.