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Semantics Quotes by Alfred Korzybski
- Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.
- If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.
- Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about;…
- Whatever you say it is, it isn't.
- The analogy between the noises we make when these noises do not symbolize anything which exists, and the worthless checks we write when our bank…
- It is now no mystery that some quite influential philosophers were mentally ill.
- We should not be surprised that we find meaningless noises in the foundation of many old philosophies, and that from them arise most of the…
- A few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called critical philosophy and to the theory of knowledge or epistemology. This class…
- In the rough, a symbol is a sign that stands for something Before a noise, etc., may become a symbol, something must exist for the…
- If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry…
- If we consider that all we deal with represents constantly changing sub-microscopic, interrelated processes which are not, and cannot be identical with themselves, the old…
More Semantics Quotes
- Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like… — Dan Brown
- ... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills… — Alfred Tarski
- The continuation that obeys only obvious stack semantics, O grasshopper, is not the true continuation. — Guy Steele
- We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted. — H R Haldeman
- If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics. — Betty Buckley
- Nobody wants to say that the man [Obama] is a Marxist. Okay, so he's not a Marxist. He's a progressive! This is… — Glenn Beck
- All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material… — Felix Frankfurter
- It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky's syntax,… — John Searle
- Philosophers who pay for their semantics by drawing checks on Darwin are in debt way over their heads. — Jerry Fodor
- There are only two things in the world: nothing and semantics. — Werner Erhard
- Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages… — Willard Van Orman Quine
- ANTI-ZIONISTS, last of all, exhibit a distaste for certain words. It was Thomas Hobbes who, anticipating semantics, pointed out that words are… — Milton Steinberg