How do you use Korzybski in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like semiotician.
Korzybski in a sentence
Synonyms of Korzybski
Using Korzybski
- Useful related words include: alfred korzybski, semanticist, semiotician.
Context around Korzybski
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 13 start, 3 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Korzybski
- In this selection, "korzybski" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, day, alfred, following, 1879, advocated and claimed stand out and add context to how "korzybski" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include chase called korzybski a pioneer and following korzybski i put. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "korzybski" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with korzybski
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Korzybski himself acknowledged many of these influences. (7 words)
Following Korzybski, I put things in probabilities, not absolutes.. (9 words)
Korzybski claimed this to be a unique capacity, separating people from animals. (12 words)
Korzybski observed improvement "of one full letter grade" by "students who did not generalize by using that infinitive". citation Although this took place before the invention of E-Prime, it does show the application of general semantics to psychotherapy. (39 words)
The General Semantics connection is the relation to Korzybski's original motivation of trying to identify key features of the successes of mathematics and the physical sciences that could be extended into everyday thinking and social organization. (37 words)
Anecdotes One day, Korzybski was giving a lecture to a group of students, and he interrupted the lesson suddenly in order to retrieve a packet of biscuits, wrapped in white paper, from his briefcase. (34 words)
Example sentences (18)
And he also stressed that sanity requires the awareness that "whatever you say a thing is, it is not" Korzybski, A. 2010.
Anecdotes One day, Korzybski was giving a lecture to a group of students, and he interrupted the lesson suddenly in order to retrieve a packet of biscuits, wrapped in white paper, from his briefcase.
Chase called Korzybski "a pioneer" and described Science and Sanity as "formulating a genuine science of communication.
During the 1930s and 1940s, Heinlein was deeply interested in Alfred Korzybski 's General Semantics and attended a number of seminars on the subject.
Following Korzybski, I put things in probabilities, not absolutes..
In Korzybski's system, one's assessment of Elizabeth belongs to a higher order of abstraction than Elizabeth herself.
Korzybski (1879–1950) determined that two forms of the verb 'to be'—the 'is' of identity and the 'is' of predication—had structural problems.
Korzybski advocated raising one's awareness of structural issues generally through training in general semantics.
Korzybski claimed this to be a unique capacity, separating people from animals.
Korzybski himself acknowledged many of these influences.
Korzybski maintained that humans are limited in what they know by (1) the structure of their nervous systems, and (2) the structure of their languages.
Korzybski observed improvement "of one full letter grade" by "students who did not generalize by using that infinitive". citation Although this took place before the invention of E-Prime, it does show the application of general semantics to psychotherapy.
Korzybski's remedy was to deny identity; in this example, to be aware continually that "Elizabeth" is not what we call her.
Korzybski's use of the term is somewhat unique and requires study to understand his meaning.
NLP's theoretical basis relies heavily on Korzybski's and Bourland's work.
The Bruges (Belgium) center for Solution Focused Therapy operates under the name Korzybski Institute Training and Research Center. citation George Kelly, founder of Personal Construct Psychology, was influenced by general semantics.
The founders of these movements did not themselves credit Korzybski for their ideas.
The General Semantics connection is the relation to Korzybski's original motivation of trying to identify key features of the successes of mathematics and the physical sciences that could be extended into everyday thinking and social organization.