ETC.: A Review of General Semantics articles from June 1998

ETC.: A Review of General Semantics archives from June 1998

Ethics: a general semantics perspective.
June 22, 1998... Introduction Issues such as abortion, euthanasia, informed consent, and genetic control have become more pressing as the technology of medicine has achieved greater effectiveness and power. In response to this, the field of medical ethics has...

How to win the "drug lord" war: stop romanticizing.
June 22, 1998... Recently I'd had the impression that the news media were gradually phasing out the romantic, respectful words they had used to describe rich thugs in the drug trade: lords, barons, kingpins, masterminds, etc. In The Wall Street Journal of October...

Number-English: a dictionary (A-Alg).
June 22, 1998... When we try to hitch our ordinary language to scientifically correct language, we run into an obstacle I call the hitch hitch. The two languages aren't equal. Their disparity hinders the hitching. Ordinary language comes to us naturally and has...

The symbol eaters (a chapter from the clone chronicles).
June 22, 1998... Entry in Cyberpaedia Terra Fluxus, 47th Edition. 2290. [sections]4042 The historian should remain invisible. The work should appear scholarly, objective, factual, without bias or opinion. For form's sake, this historian will endeavor to use the...

Ishmael and general semantics theory.
June 22, 1998... I closed my eyes and shook my head. "Ishmael," I said, "you're really confusing me." "Good. That's progress. I must make you stumble over your cultural taboos. I know of no other way to break down the way you've been conditioned to respond to...

Ishmael.
June 22, 1998... I closed my eyes and shook my head. "Ishmael," I said, "you're really confusing me." "Good. That's progress. I must make you stumble over your cultural taboos. I know of no other way to break down the way you've been conditioned to respond to...

Is language a game?(Metaphors in Action)
June 22, 1998... Is language a game? Can a metaphor - a part of language encompass the whole? The game metaphor for describing language has an interesting double life. In one incarnation, it is discussed in philosophy, sanctioned by the authorship of Ludwig...

A general semantics glossary. (part 22)(Lexicon)
June 22, 1998... Korzybski's Structural Differential with variations. We have come to the end of our General Semantics Glossary. Not to the end of formulations that could be included. Surely not to the end of what could be said about korzybskian...

They're stealing our general semantics.(G.S. at Large)
June 22, 1998... I discovered general semantics over thirty years ago. I've studied it, trained in it and attempted to apply it ever since. I value g.s. for its practical, mundane usefulness. I tend to find discussions of the academic and theoretical aspects of...

Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem.
June 22, 1998... Simon Singh. New York: Walker, 1997. Pierre de Fermat, a seventeenth-century French judge who had a gift for math, inspired generations of mathematicians when he left a small note in the margin of a mathematical text. In it, he proclaimed he...

Sacred Origins of Profound Things: The Stories Behind the Rites and Rituals of the World's Religions.
June 22, 1998... Charles Panati. New York: Penguin, 1996. Charles Panati, a former physicist and a science editor at Newsweek, is the author of thirteen books including Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things and The Browser's Book of Beginnings. He claims to...

Hogarth: A Life and a World.
June 22, 1998... Jenny Uglow. New York: Farrar Straus, 1997. In this well-written eight-hundred page biography you will learn a lot about the artist William Hogarth (1697-1764), who mapped the territory of eighteenth century England with moral and satirical...

Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest.
June 22, 1998... Adrian Desmond. Reading, Massachusetts. Addison-Wesley, 1997. He was Darwin's biggest booster, tantalizing and tormenting the public with talk of ape ancestors. He coined the term "agnostic" (1869) and elevated the status of the scientist at...

A Pictorial History of Psychology.
June 22, 1998... Wolfgang G. Bringmann, et al., Editors. Chicago: Quintessence, 1997. In 107 articles by 109 authors from 15 different countries, this volume covers the history of psychology from Greek antiquity to recent developments in American cognitive...