As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content of knowledge. If we gamble on verbal structures that have no observable empirical structures, such gambling can never give us any structural information about the world. Therefore such verbal structures are structurally obsolete, and if we believe in them, they induce delusions or other semantic disturbances.


Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics (ed. Institute of GS, 1958) - ISBN: 9780937298015

Alfred Korzybski Quotes

As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content of knowledge. If we...

As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content of knowledge. If we...

As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content of knowledge. If we...

As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content of knowledge. If we...