biography
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Korzybski, Alfred (Habdank Skarbek)
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pronunciation:
[kaw(r)zibskee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1879–1950)
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| biography:
| Scholar and philosopher of language, born in Warsaw, Poland. He was sent to the USA in 1915 on a Russian military mission, and remained there after World War 1, becoming a US citizen in 1940. He is best known as the originator of a system of linguistic philosophy and expression (general semantics, now written officially as general-semantics to stress its status as a unitary term), and he became founder-director of the Institute of General Semantics. His major work on the subject is Science and Sanity (1933). |
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