Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics

Alfred Korzybski

Institute of GS, 1958 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 806 pages

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Not for the faint of heart, this is a 900 page book packed to the brim with linguistic insight. If you have no previous background with semantics or linguistics philosophy, you might want to read ...

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Contents

• A NOTE ON ERRATA: xiii
• Page Correction: xxv
• PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION 1958 by RUSSELL MEYERS M D: xxix
• INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION 1941: xxxvii
• PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION 1933 Ixxxix: lxxxix
• BOOK I: 1
• CHAPTER PAGE: 7
• TERMINOLOGY AND MEANINGS: 19
• CHAPTER PAGE: 38
• GENERAL ON STRUCTURE: 53
• Vffl GENERAL EPISTEMOLOGICAL: 101
• THE ORGANISMASAWHOLE: 123
• PART IV: 131
• XH ONORDER: 151
• ON RELATIONS: 188
• ON THE NOTION OF INFINITY: 204
• 4096IO 1000000000000 212: 212
• THE INFINITESIMAL AND CAUSE AND EFFECT: 214
• ON THE EXISTENCE OF RELATIONS: 220
• ON THE NONARISTOTELIAN LANGUAGE CALLED MATHEMATICS: 245
• PART VI: 313
• Name should be Minkowski: 318
• ON CONDITIONAL REFLEXES: 326
• XXn ON INHIBITION: 341
• XXffl ON CONDITIONAL REACTIONS OF HIGHER ORDERS AND PSYCHIATRY: 358
• BOOK II: 367
• ON THE STRUCTURAL DIFFERENTIAL: 386
• ON CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONSCIOUSNESS OF ABSTRACTING: 412
• Vn HIGHER ORDER ABSTRACTIONS: 426
• XXVm ON THE MECHANISM OF IDENTIFICATION AND VISUALIZATION: 452
• line should read semantic shock cannot produce a neurosis: 502
• CONCLUDING REMARKS: 537
• BOOK III: 563
• ON THE STRUCTURE OF MATHEMATICS: 571
• XXXm ON LINEARITY: 603
• XXXTV ONGEOMETRY: 615
• ON THE SIMILARITY OF EMPIRICAL AND VERBAL STRUCTURES: 635
• ON THE SEMANTICS OF THE EINSTEIN THEORY: 648
• Formula for t has a misplaced parenthesis It should read tpt: 654
• XXXVn ON THE NOTION OF SIMULTANEITY: 659
• XXXVm ONTHEWORLD OFMINKOWSKI: 665
• XXXLX GENERAL REFLECTIONS ON THE EINSTEIN THEORY: 673
• ON THE STRUCTURE OF MATTER: 683
• Hydrogen + ion does not have 2 atoms H2O splits into H and: 686
• CHAPTER PAGE: 698
• Expressions 2 3 4 should have dots over lefthand side xhs: 703
• THE THEORY OF TYPES BY PAUL WEISS: 737
• MATHEMATICS: 747
• Misprint in Reference 172 Should be superstition: 771

Bibliographic information

• Title: Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics; International Non-Aristotelian Library
• Author: Alfred Korzybski
• Edition: 4, reprint
• Publisher: Institute of GS, 1958
• ISBN: 0937298018, 9780937298015
• Length: 806 pages
• Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Semantics