That's called time-binding, and it actually predates Korzybski's coining "general semantics" in the 1930s. He wrote about it in his first book Manhood of Human

That's called time-binding, and it actually predates Korzybski's coining "general semantics" in the 1930s. He wrote about it in his first book Manhood of Humanity, which is public domain[2]. 1. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_binding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_binding> 2. <https://openlibrary.org/works/OL168124W/Manhood_of_humanity?edition=key%3A/books/OL7212524M https://openlibrary.org/works/OL168124W/Manhood_of_humanity?...>