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Consciousness of Abstraction and Kabbalah 2 May 8 - 09:00 pm
By Ben Hauck
Hume's Fork and GS 14 April 24 - 07:23 pm
By David Lymburner
How things appear vs How things are 24 April 21 - 11:43 am
By Loel Shuler
Historical Connections to GS formulations 3 April 19 - 01:56 pm
By David Linwood
Wittgenstein and Korzybski 3 April 17 - 11:56 pm
By Steve
Laying the Foundation for Learning GS 28 April 3 - 09:54 pm
By Bruce I. Kodish
Describing and Judging 31 March 25 - 03:57 pm
By Thomas Johnson
A General Theory of Values 7 March 19 - 11:14 am
By Loel Shuler
Meaning of life 6 March 17 - 11:47 am
By Loel Shuler
GS and Steven Pinker 22 March 15 - 12:33 pm
By David Lymburner
GS and morality 138 March 12 - 07:18 am
By vilmart
If you decided who would be in an alternate Earth colony 14 March 5 - 11:31 am
By Thomas Johnson
how to improve fit-to-fact-ness ? 17 March 2 - 02:13 pm
By vilmart
Writing as a Different Language than Speaking, or Language as a Pushbroom? 15 February 25 - 10:04 pm
By Ben Hauck
Non-Aristotelian Approaches 44 February 8 - 05:15 am
By David Lymburner
Evolution vs Special Creation from a GS perspective 9 January 23 - 12:33 am
By Lynn H. Maxson
Do we need 'the event'? 15 January 22 - 05:58 pm
By Thomas Johnson
Application of Northrop 67 January 22 - 08:09 am
By Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr.
Meanings of the Term "Science" 2 January 20 - 10:25 pm
By Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr.
Popper and undefined terms 6 January 17 - 01:44 pm
By Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr.
No Sophistry Allowed Experiment 8 January 16 - 06:28 pm
By Thomas Johnson
Use of Sophistry to Enact "psychological biases" 26 January 16 - 07:10 am
By Nora Miller
GS book - "Language in thought and Action", by S.I. Hayakawa 37 January 16 - 05:00 am
By vilmart
I plan to learn Swedish by myself - What in GS may help me for that ?? 99 January 16 - 02:12 am
By vilmart
Northrop and Concepts 84 January 15 - 05:20 pm
By Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr.
Colloids again 2 January 13 - 09:22 am
By David Lymburner
The Big Deal about Colloids? 168 January 13 - 07:53 am
By Nora Miller
Puzzles 14 January 12 - 03:00 am
By David Lymburner
More on similarity of structure 57 January 7 - 03:02 pm
By Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr.
Quotation Marks as Undefined Terms 4 December 29 - 09:30 pm
By Ben Hauck
The Is of Authority 60 December 23 - 06:23 am
By David Lymburner
General Semantics as a Science of Expressions 8 December 16 - 11:51 am
By Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr.
Changing What We Say and Why 17 December 7 - 02:41 pm
By Gabriel Z.
Did Noam Chomsky dislike GS ?? 1 December 7 - 10:49 am
By vilmart
Wisdom and GS 91 December 7 - 05:02 am
By vilmart
On the whys and wherefores for the term "general semantics" 27 December 5 - 05:33 am
By Thomas Johnson
extensional devices 1 November 30 - 02:07 pm
By Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr.
News: A Term ... News-Plus: A Nice Term 2 November 21 - 08:23 pm
By Ben Hauck
GS can make safe our definition of intelligence 10 November 19 - 06:40 pm
By Thomas Johnson
Facts & Opinions 63 November 13 - 12:09 am
By Thomas Johnson
Henri Laborit's biological structure 5 November 8 - 10:57 am
By vilmart
Objectivism 21 November 6 - 10:56 pm
By Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr.
GS and Culture 7 November 2 - 04:08 am
By vilmart
Structural Obsession 114 October 31 - 02:06 pm
By Nora Miller
Limits of Scientific Knowledge 23 October 31 - 12:42 pm
By Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr.
What do you think of my text on a GS perspective ??? 2 October 24 - 10:54 am
By vilmart
Induction, Deduction, etc. 23 October 23 - 12:11 pm
By Thomas Johnson
Questions about Korzybski's Structural Differential 85 October 18 - 07:48 am
By vilmart
What can General Semantics teach me concerning love? 23 October 16 - 09:57 am
By vilmart
Consciousness of abstracting - lower level abstraction instances 10 October 13 - 09:01 am
By Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr.
Loose Definitions 17 October 1 - 12:11 pm
By Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr.
Utterance Meaning and Semantic Variables 2 September 19 - 09:46 am
By Nora Miller
Who are the "speech police"? 8 September 18 - 09:52 pm
By Nora Miller
Unintentional Fallacies 76 September 18 - 12:01 pm
By Nora Miller
GS Standpoint on Aristotle's Four Causes Model 59 September 16 - 09:40 am
By David Lymburner
Positivity 16 September 12 - 06:32 pm
By Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr.
Exploring-experiencing-practicing E-Prime 96 September 12 - 11:54 am
By Loel Shuler
Do Words Have Inherent Meanings? 206 September 9 - 11:39 am
By Nora Miller
Postman Updates? Recommendations? 3 September 6 - 12:22 am
By Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr.
In what extent can too much verbalization block imagination ?? 4 September 2 - 01:06 pm
By vilmart
Writers that use GS or spread GS ideas 4 August 28 - 10:48 am
By vilmart
"Science and Art" 68 August 25 - 06:16 am
By vilmart
General Semantics and Equality 169 August 23 - 07:32 am
By vilmart
E-prime and Word=Thing Identifications 60 August 22 - 07:30 am
By David Lymburner
the blur notion of freedom 13 August 20 - 04:05 am
By vilmart
levels of knowing and existence - H. J. Weinberg 96 August 18 - 07:52 am
By David Lymburner
Intensional & Extensional Methods of Interpretation 9 August 13 - 02:46 pm
By David Lymburner
Similarity of Structure Between Interpretation & Intent 116 August 13 - 08:23 am
By Milton Dawes
Your Personal Definition of General Semanticstoday - An Ongoing Thread 27 August 12 - 08:48 am
By Milton Dawes
A=A 17 August 12 - 08:36 am
By Milton Dawes
Where are we going as a species? 55 August 9 - 02:16 pm
By vilmart
Revising GS 79 August 9 - 01:54 pm
By David Lymburner
Exploring aspects of E-Prime 116 August 8 - 01:40 am
By Michael R. Murry
Three Umpires 26 August 7 - 07:33 am
By Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr.
GS in other languages 2 August 5 - 12:03 pm
By vilmart
Breaking a habit.... 42 August 4 - 04:49 am
By vilmart
what is the best part in Science and Sanity ?? 97 July 31 - 10:52 am
By vilmart
Science, Math and Subject-Predicate Form 72 July 31 - 05:52 am
By Ben Hauck
hierarchy and social inequalities 25 July 29 - 01:56 pm
By vilmart
is english better than chinese ?? or just for me ??? 51 July 29 - 01:08 pm
By vilmart
the perception of beauty 32 July 25 - 09:54 am
By vilmart
Mixing Your Disciplines 54 July 22 - 11:37 am
By Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr.
Gender question 19 July 20 - 06:31 am
By vilmart
Approaching S&S with an Analytical and Evaluative Objectives 128 July 19 - 10:14 am
By Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr.
GS and Quantum Mechanics 12 July 19 - 09:43 am
By David Lymburner
Semantic Reactions and the SD 55 July 17 - 01:04 pm
By Ben Hauck
Question from Milton Gilmore 5 July 14 - 10:54 am
By Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr.
Genius 26 July 14 - 06:46 am
By Darren Cox
Reflection... 31 July 9 - 10:01 am
By Milton Dawes
Never the same river 17 July 8 - 05:46 am
By Gary Chapin
buddhism and nirvana... 9 July 6 - 10:55 am
By Loel Shuler
Beyond Science and Sanity 21 July 4 - 05:06 am
By Milton Gilmore
Concepts & Language 74 July 3 - 08:20 am
By Nora Miller
Aristotelian paradigm alive in "Critical Thinking" 75 June 25 - 10:47 am
By Nora Miller
The "Mishandling" of the Koran 4 June 25 - 06:21 am
By Milton Gilmore
Your GS 11 June 13 - 12:04 pm
By Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr.
The Opposite of Elementalism? 66 June 6 - 10:51 am
By Nora Miller
Traits of A Good Argument 29 May 23 - 07:24 am
By David Lymburner
Consciousness of Abstracting 203 May 22 - 08:13 am
By David Lymburner
Experiences in Changing Your Thinking 9 May 17 - 02:33 pm
By Ben Hauck
Good on a moral level 51 May 15 - 11:32 am
By Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr.
Elementalism - a necessary evil? 60 May 13 - 12:55 pm
By David Lymburner
Allness...? 20 May 10 - 06:18 am
By David Lymburner
Projection 132 May 9 - 05:31 am
By Milton Gilmore
Structure, Content, Knowledge 103 May 9 - 05:15 am
By Milton Gilmore
Another Abstraction Thread 11 May 7 - 07:07 am
By David Lymburner
Where does "concept formation" occur in the Structural Differential? 63 April 28 - 05:21 am
By Thomas Johnson
Knowledge and Structure 157 April 23 - 03:43 pm
By Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr.
Abstraction 95 April 23 - 04:10 am
By Milton Gilmore
cognitive mapping 28 April 14 - 08:00 am
By David Lymburner
GS as a Particular Way of Socializing 7 April 10 - 06:29 am
By Ben Hauck
Unspeakable *Level* 67 April 1 - 07:26 pm
By Sherman Lee Thomason
Extension & You 31 March 23 - 07:59 am
By David Lymburner
On Meaning 57 March 18 - 12:09 pm
By David Lymburner
Paraphrasing and the SD (Rerouted from Lakoff Books) 203 March 15 - 01:42 pm
By David Lymburner
Does Defining Lead to Saving? 6 February 27 - 05:32 pm
By David Lymburner
What are these Neuro-Physiological Mechansims? 28 February 22 - 09:10 pm
By David Lymburner
Emotions & Judgments 47 February 21 - 07:44 pm
By David Lymburner
Is GS Adapting to the Changes in our Cultural Environment? 1 February 3 - 02:25 pm
By David Lymburner
Semantic Environment 37 January 31 - 06:45 am
By Nora Miller
New Definition of Multiordinality 109 January 26 - 12:57 pm
By Ben Hauck
Rigor (Not As In Mortis) 8 January 17 - 04:32 pm
By vanessa biard-schaeffer
Science (then) and Science (now) 68 January 16 - 12:17 pm
By Gary Chapin
What is "Sticky" about GS? 3 January 13 - 03:42 pm
By David Lymburner
General-Semantics & Schizophrenia 19 January 13 - 10:48 am
By Richard W. Handel
Reference Points 39 January 1 - 07:49 am
By Thomas Johnson
Your Own Quotations Marks Practice 7 December 22 - 07:27 am
By Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr.
Like ... ? (GS Similes) 34 December 20 - 10:41 am
By Bruce Wilson
The Victim Orientation 11 December 17 - 06:07 pm
By Ben Hauck
Explaining 'Confusing Orders of Abstraction' 15 December 11 - 06:09 am
By Thomas Johnson
Metaphors 88 November 30 - 12:55 pm
By Nora Miller
"What can we know for sure about anything?" 44 November 22 - 11:05 am
By Thomas Johnson
60 Minutes & Identification 1 November 13 - 08:08 pm
By Ben Hauck
Book Recommendation 9 November 1 - 05:58 pm
By Michael J. Fuhlhage
GS in everday speech? 9 October 31 - 12:41 pm
By Pat Renzulli
The Scientific Method 9 October 23 - 12:02 pm
By Ben Hauck
Weltschmerz & IFD Disease 1 October 23 - 07:29 am
By Ben Hauck
The Present 25 October 15 - 09:32 am
By David Lymburner
E-prime made easier 2 October 6 - 09:32 pm
By Tristan Lear
Launch: M/C - Media and Culture 1 October 5 - 07:39 am
By Ben Hauck
I'm not sure what this qualifies as ... 14 September 25 - 12:23 am
By Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr.
Linguistic Structures & How They Influence How We See 'The World' 52 September 22 - 07:26 am
By Ben Hauck
On Negativity 6 September 20 - 06:17 am
By David Lymburner
Operational Definitions 26 September 19 - 05:04 am
By David Lymburner
The 13th Floor Elevators 1 September 17 - 08:42 am
By Ben Hauck
The Word "Fact" As Used In General Semantics 14 September 16 - 10:44 am
By David Lymburner
Characteristics and the Functional Orientation 2 September 12 - 05:14 pm
By David Lymburner
Would you classify assumptions as high-order abstractions? 38 September 12 - 04:46 pm
By David Lymburner
Attraction 10 September 5 - 10:50 pm
By Frank Gastner
similarity of structure. 32 September 4 - 07:27 am
By Thomas Johnson
Hypenation Bias 1 August 31 - 05:35 am
By Ben Hauck
Frontline: The Persuaders Is Online! 1 August 6 - 05:11 pm
By Ben Hauck
Orders of Abstracting / Levels of Abstraction 8 August 4 - 10:13 am
By Ben Hauck
How/Why GS 'sticks' 11 July 28 - 01:10 pm
By Steve
organism-in-its-environment-as-a-whole 48 July 28 - 12:02 am
By Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr.
WIGO 3 July 19 - 08:38 am
By Ben Hauck
Inferences vs. Postulates 13 July 18 - 12:02 pm
By Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr.
Bertrand Russell's 1948 Reith Lecture 2 July 15 - 08:34 pm
By Allen Flagg
A Question on Propositional Functions 8 July 15 - 05:09 pm
By Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr.
Understanding multiordinality 122 July 14 - 08:50 pm
By Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr.
Style as Higher-Order "Behavior" 12 July 5 - 12:45 pm
By Loel Shuler
Goals of General Semantics 29 July 2 - 11:18 am
By Loel Shuler
Thinking and Symbols 12 June 20 - 07:57 pm
By Ben Hauck
Hidden Structure and Language 2 June 19 - 02:05 pm
By Ben Hauck
Elementary School GS 5 June 4 - 09:09 pm
By Kirt Nieft
Your Recommendations Appreciated 22 June 2 - 10:45 am
By Milton Dawes
the hammer of A logic 3 May 24 - 11:41 pm
By Gary Jaron
On Language as "Symbolism" 8 May 24 - 01:29 pm
By Milton Dawes
helga-student 2 May 20 - 09:16 am
By Ben Hauck
Examples of Misevaluations and Their Effects 11 May 19 - 12:05 pm
By Nora Miller
'ladder' of abstraction? 36 May 17 - 01:37 pm
By David Earl Wright Sr.
Consciousness of Abstraction (was--Introduction) 68 May 17 - 08:32 am
By Milton Dawes
Constants 6 May 16 - 02:14 pm
By Ben Hauck
Recommendations on Different Reading Sequences for S&S 2 May 14 - 05:25 pm
By Thomas Johnson
Is it GS? 10 May 13 - 05:13 pm
By Ben Hauck
Just when you think you understand GS, you find another way to apply it 4 May 12 - 08:13 am
By Thomas Johnson
"Psycho-Logics"? 2 May 10 - 07:56 am
By Thomas Johnson
Essence 24 May 8 - 10:46 am
By Ben Hauck
"How to live the rest of your life" 4 May 7 - 08:20 pm
By Ben Hauck
'Experiencing' general semantics 57 May 7 - 11:21 am
By Loel Shuler
Philosophy in GS 42 May 1 - 06:48 am
By Thomas Johnson
Examples of Activities Called "Thinking" 13 April 30 - 11:36 am
By Loel Shuler
Seeking a little clarity on "metaphysics" as used by Korzybski 22 April 29 - 07:46 pm
By Thomas Johnson
Creation vs Evolution 26 April 29 - 07:06 am
By Thomas Johnson
Ahh, the good ole days ... :-) 1 April 25 - 08:22 pm
By Ben Hauck
What General Semantics principle do you find most challenging to employ? 1 April 22 - 11:27 am
By Ben Hauck
GS In Action 13 April 18 - 07:02 pm
By Ben Hauck
Multiordinality 7 April 15 - 11:29 am
By Loel Burket Shuler
Undefined Terms 18 April 12 - 07:57 am
By Thomas Johnson
Want to learn G.S. Buy A.K.'s Seminar! 2 April 9 - 06:19 pm
By Ben Hauck
Korzybski's Dynamic Thinking 4 April 9 - 01:29 pm
By Jacqueline Rudig
Where do I start when I want to learn and practice GS? 4 April 7 - 09:37 am
By M Hoenderdos
Excellent Review of," How to develop Your Thinking Ability" 2 April 4 - 05:59 pm
By James D. Laughead
Excellent review of Science & Sanity 3 April 4 - 05:08 pm
By James D. Laughead
'Natural Laws' 25 April 4 - 04:46 pm
By Thomas Johnson
Canalization 5 April 3 - 10:51 am
By David Earl Wright Sr.
I can 'see' it! 3 April 1 - 10:54 am
By Brent Coghill
losing my mind 11 April 1 - 04:28 am
By Donal Keane
Dimensional Differential 4 March 31 - 06:56 pm
By James D. Laughead
Truth 88 March 25 - 06:46 am
By Milton Dawes
'Banning' the word "Define" (and its other manifestations) 14 March 23 - 10:19 am
By Ben Hauck
Context... 7 March 22 - 08:39 am
By David Earl Wright Sr.
One's Sense of What's Good 29 March 14 - 06:48 am
By Milton Dawes
What are students pre-general semantics like? 1 February 28 - 08:55 am
By Ben Hauck
The Art and Science of Abstracting 20 February 24 - 10:01 am
By Milton Dawes
"Not to be confused with semantics..." 2 February 24 - 09:40 am
By Milton Dawes
Advice on Classes 5 February 23 - 06:03 pm
By Barbara George
Favorite Quotations from General Semantics Literature 15 February 23 - 06:47 am
By Milton Dawes
the creator of this proverb might have seen eye to eye with AK 6 February 21 - 11:24 am
By Milton Dawes
General Semantics and Action Science 8 February 16 - 07:37 am
By David Lymburner
A Question About Extensional Devices 3 February 15 - 10:39 pm
By Nora Miller
this may interest some of us ... 7 February 3 - 03:15 pm
By Bruce I. Kodish
General Semantics Trivia Thread 3 February 3 - 05:25 am
By Ben Hauck
Signal Reactions & Symbol Reactions 42 January 31 - 07:47 am
By Milton Dawes
Might the definiendum define the definiens? 20 January 28 - 12:05 pm
By Wayne J. Radburn