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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.

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
Humans
Intuition
Interconnected
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Schools
Fallacy
Emotions
Consist
Men
Elements
Faculties
Thoughts
Divide
Emotion
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Divides
Intuitions
Human
Faculty
Parcel

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