General-semantics Glossary Project
Please send me your contributions, and I'll add them in.
Note: "IGS" entries taken from a handout from the Institute's summer
seminar-workshop (1995?), other entries submitted by the named individuals
(some of which were published in the IGS newsletter "Timebindings",
reproduced here with permission). Of course, individual contributions
represent various personal takes on the terms, and are not to be taken as
"definitive" or as representing "official" explanations of them. To learn
more about and to gain a more comprehensive 'feel' for these terms and
Korzybski's system, you might want to read some of the books in the
bibliography, contact IGS and ISGS, take a summer seminar-workshop, etc.
- Semantics
- "[deals] only with the meaning of words defined by words" Korzybski
- Danehy-Oakes
- General-semantics
- (IGS) meta-communicational (meta-linguistic, meta-system) system
- One-liners used to explain g-s
- Raymond
- Menefee
- Hale-Evans
- Plourde
- Safier
- Hautala
- Danehy-Oakes
- B. Kodish
- C. Read
- Reuter
- Kurien
- S. Kodish
- General-semantics as a method of evaluation
- IGS
- Term
- Undefined term (and necessity thereof)
- Definition, intensional
- "Definition", extensional
- (Over/Under)-defined terms
- McPherson
- Formulating
- Abstracting
- IGS
- Consciousness of abstracting
- Multi-valued Orientation
- B. Kodish
- Moore
- S. Kodish
- Intensional orientation
- (IGS) over-dependence on definitions, verbalizations, etc.
- Extensional orientation
- IGS
- Extensional devices:
- importance of: McPherson
- Indexing: McPherson
- Dating: McPherson
- "Etc.": McPherson
- Single quoting
- Hyphenating
- "-ing" (gerund form of verbs)
- "..." (ellipsis)
- Delayed reaction
- S. Kodish
- Evaluating
- Semantic reaction (s.r)
- IGS
- Danehy-Oakes
- Hautala
- McPherson
- The Map Is Not the Territory
- B. Kodish
- S. Kodish
- Event/Process (level 1)
- Object (level 2)
- Silence on the Unspeakable (Object) Level
- Danehy-Oakes
- Case
- Erickson
- Dawes
- anonymous
- Label (level 3+)
- Structural differential
- using the, B. Kodish
- using the, S. Kodish
- Order
- Relations
- Structure (including 'structure-as-only-content-of-knowledge')
- IGS
- Function
- Order of Abstracting
- Natural Order of Abstracting
- Multi-ordinality of terms
- IGS
- Plourde
- Identity, Identification
- Non-identity
- IGS
- Danehy-Oakes
- Non-allness
- B. Schwartz
- Clark
- J. Schwartz
- Dawes
- Smith
- Plourde
- Uncertainty
- B. Kodish
- Dawes
- Smith
- S. Kodish
- Elementalism (vs. Non-elementalism)
- Danehy-Oakes
- Time-binding
- IGS
- Plourde
- B. Kodish
- C. Read
- S. Kodish
- Dawes
- Blackman
- Nervous system
- Organism
- Environment
- Organism-as-a-whole-in-an-environment
- Human nervous system
- Human-organism-as-a-whole-in-an-environment
- A, E, N, ~A, ~E, ~N
- (IGS) ~A: *not anti*-Aristotelian, but broader and corrective
- Danehy-Oakes
- Sapir-Whorf-Korzybski Hypothesis
- IGS
- Etc.
Please send me your contributions, and I'll add them in.
John McPherson (jmgs@genius.ucsd.edu)