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Second order effects, such as belief in belief, makes fanaticism.

Alfred Korzybski

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Alfred Korzybski
Age: 70 †
Born: 1879
Born: July 3
Died: 1950
Died: March 1
Engineer
Linguist
Mathematician
Philosopher
Warszawa
Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski
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Mathematics and logic have been proved to be one a fact from which it seems to follow that mathematics may successfully deal with non-quantitative problems in a much broader sense than was suspected to be possible.
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These 'philosophers', etc., seem unaware, to give a specific example, that by teaching and preaching 'identity', which is empirically non-existent in this actual world, they are neurologically training future generations in the pathological identifications found in the 'mentally' ill or maladjusted.
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The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises namely, the complete denial of 'identity.'
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Different ‘philosophies’ represent nothing but methods of evaluation, which may lead to empirical mis-evaluation if science and empirical facts are disregarded.
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Riches I need not, nor man's empty praise.
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Identity is invariably false to facts.
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To use words to sense reality is like going with a lamp to search for darkness.
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A person does what he does because he sees the world as he sees it.
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We see what we see because we miss all the finer details.
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I think therefore I seem to be.
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The map is not the territory, the word is not the thing it describes. Whenever the map is confused with the territory, a 'semantic disturbance' is set up in the organism. The disturbance continues until the limitation of the map is recognized.
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I want to make clear only that words are not the things spoken about, and that there is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.
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Words don't mean, people mean.
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Whatever you say it is, is simply what YOU SAY it is.
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Whatever you might say the object is, well it is not.
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One would have to say in the end everything is a gag, etc because everything is infinitely more than just a gag. The same applies to other is-statements such as Laughter is an instant vacation
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Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols.... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols, rule us.
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It is a fallacy of the old schools to divide man into parcels, elements, thoughts, emotions, intuitions, etc. All human faculties consist of an interconnected whole.
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Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.
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Any object of thought is both 'more than what we think, and different'.
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