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In part the General Semantics tradition was upheld by [[Samuel I. Hayakawa]], who did have a falling out with Korzybski. When asked over what, Hayakawa is said to have replied: "Words". In part the General Semantics tradition was upheld by [[Samuel I. Hayakawa]], who did have a falling out with Korzybski. When asked over what, Hayakawa is said to have replied: "Words".
 +==See also==
 +* [[General Semantics]]
 +* [[Map-territory relation|The map is not the territory]]
 +* [[Structural differential]]
 +* [[E-Prime]]
 +* [[Institute of General Semantics]]
 +* [[Robert Pula]]
 +* [[Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture]]
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Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski was born on July 3, 1879 in Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire and died on March 1, 1950, in Lakeville, Connecticut, USA. He is probably best-remembered for developing the theory of general semantics.

Impact

Korzybski's work influenced Gestalt Therapy, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, and Neuro-linguistic programming (especially the Meta model). As reported in the Third Edition of Science and Sanity, The U.S. Army in World War II used his system to treat battle fatigue in Europe under the supervision of Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, who also became the psychiatrist in charge of the Nazi prizoners at Nuremberg. Other individuals influenced by Korzybski include Kenneth Burke, William S. Burroughs, Frank Herbert, Albert Ellis, Gregory Bateson, Buckminster Fuller, Douglas Engelbart, Stuart Chase,Alvin Toffler, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, A. E. van Vogt, Robert Anton Wilson, entertainer Steve Allen, and Tommy Hall (lyricist for the 13th Floor Elevators); and scientists such as William Alanson White (psychiatry), physicist P. W. Bridgman, and researcher W. Horsley Gantt (a former student and colleague of Pavlov). He also influenced the Belgian surrealist writer of comics Jan Bucquoy in the seventh part of the comics series Jaunes: Labyrinthe, with explicit reference in the plot to Korzybski's "the map is not the territory."

In part the General Semantics tradition was upheld by Samuel I. Hayakawa, who did have a falling out with Korzybski. When asked over what, Hayakawa is said to have replied: "Words".

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