Science and Sanity (1933) [pdf]

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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, and the forward seems interesting. Could you provide a submission statement to help me?

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.

The E Prime bible reads better than other versions: https://www.generalsemantics.org/the-general-semantics-learn...

Thank you for this explanation. This ended up being more relevant to a personal project of mine than I anticipated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_General_Semantics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Korzybski

"The map is not the territory."—Korzybski

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