SEMANTICS In a subject developed by Korzybski a great deal of stress is given to the niceties of words. In brief a word is NOT the thing. And an object exactly like another object is different because it occupies a different space and thus “can’t be the same object.” As Alfred Korzybski studied under psychiatry […]
education
Lecture: A Review of Study
Now, if you know education – and you know our technology of education now – you will see at once exactly what must have happened. Way back here in kindergarten or someplace the Communist love of the reevaluation of words caught him. The favorite trick of the Communist is not to change anybody’s vocabulary but […]
Lecture: Opening Lecture Question & Answer Period
Male voice: Ron, as the preclear’s acceptance of violence comes up to a high degree, what would violence be, then, as a definition? An unappreciated series of particles. Violence has been the servant of a preclear, you see? And he has caused violence and then has withheld causing violence. One of the favorite methods […]
Lecture: Fundamentals of Auditing
I try to use, by and large, simple English. Very few of these definitions or Axioms in Scientology have complicated words in them. They either have a made-up word out of whole cloth; take some adjective and make a noun out of it, something, just a whole cloth, because there is no place, no hole […]
Lecture: The Logics: Methods of Thinking (3)
All right, five1, a definition of terms is necessary to the alignment, statement, resolution, of suppositions, observations, problems, and solutions and their communications. Here’s a whole matter of definition. Definition is taken up so beautifully and expertly by Count Alfred Korzybski that it is very difficult to improve in any way upon his classifications of […]
Book: Child Dianetics
Education: What do you know about your schools? Your children spend a good portion of their lives there. The group may devote part of its time profitably to discovering how and what the children are taught. You will discover that in most schools the work is designed for “normal” children. The exceptionally bright or the […]