Alfred Korzybski
From Notes
Marshall cites Korzybski for
- "the map is not the territory". Words are not to be confused with their referents, especially in ascriptions.
- Dangers of the verb 'to be', hence process languages. Ruth Benedict and Margret Mead are cited for anthropological support of process languages of existing peoples.
Korzybski presented his 'general semantics' in the book "Science and Sanity", 1933. His student D. David Bourland, Jr. produced a sanitised 'to be'-free version of English that he called "E-Prime". This contrasts with non-process languages variously referred to as "Aristotelian Essentialism" or "Naive Realism".
a page on E-prime An introduction to E-prime and its origins - I found this clear and helpful.
