"The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental……" — Alfred Korzybski
"The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.'"
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Alfred Korzybski
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43 Quotes by Alfred Korzybski
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Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults.
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A person does what he does because he sees the world as he sees it.
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Second order effects, such as belief in belief, makes fanaticism.
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As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the…
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If we, who live outside asylums, act as if we lived in a fictitious world- that is to say, if…
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Different ‘philosophies’ represent nothing but methods of evaluation, which may lead to empirical mis-evaluation if science and empirical facts are…
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Mathematics and logic have been proved to be one; a fact from which it seems to follow that mathematics may…
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The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical…
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Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols.... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and…
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I am the same kind of moron as the rest of you, it's the method that does the work, for…
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Psycho-galvonic experiments show clearly that every emotion or thought is always connected with some electrical current.
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Whatever you may say something is, it is not!
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...they have never affirm'd any thing, concerning the Cause, till the Trial was past: whereas, to do it before, is…
— Thomas Sprat
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Because I have become such a solitary, and not in the Aristotelian sense: not a beast, not a god. Rather,…
— Saul Bellow
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In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into…
— Juan Gines de Sepulveda
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In Aristotelian terms, the good leader must have ethos, pathos and logos. The ethos is his moral character, the source…
— Mortimer Adler
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For, I must tell you, in this world where today all lose their minds over many & wondrous Machines --…
— Umberto Eco
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Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not…
— David Bentley Hart
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Aristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every monument accumulates graffiti.
— David Berlinski
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My one and only piece of relevant evidence [for an Aristotelian God] is the apparent impossibility of providing a naturalistic…
— Antony Flew
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One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications…
— Kenny Smith
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Catastrophe Theory is-quite likely-the first coherent attempt (since Aristotelian logic) to give a theory on analogy. When narrow-minded scientists object…
— Rene Thom
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A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this…
— Fredric Jameson
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Did I ever mention I used to be a delivery driver too? I was. I can read a map. What’s…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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