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To kick things off: this looks intriguing but I don't think I have enough context to devote more time to exploring this. I'm interested in the publishing date,

• bookofjoe 5y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_General_Semantics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_General_Semantics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Korzybski https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Korzybski "The map is not the territory."—Korzybski
• evilbob93 5y ago
  If you have read Robert Anton Wilson, you're likely familiar with his idea of E Prime, which is essentially English without the identity form of "is". It's a mind bending notion to integrate. A lot of E Prime came from Science and Sanity. An example is that saying "the book is blue" describes not a property of the book, but rather the interaction between my senses and the book, and a more "sane" way to say what is probably meant is "the book looks blue to me" so that the statement includes me and my senses in the interaction.
  • westcort 5y ago
    The E Prime bible reads better than other versions: https://www.generalsemantics.org/the-general-semantics-learning-center/applications-of-general-semantics/the-new-american-standard-bible-in-e-prime/ https://www.generalsemantics.org/the-general-semantics-learn...
  • DiggyJohnson 5y ago
    Thank you for this explanation. This ended up being more relevant to a personal project of mine than I anticipated.