ETC.: A Review of General Semantics articles from March 2000

ETC.: A Review of General Semantics archives from March 2000

CULTURE, LANGUAGE AND BEHAVIOR: Perception.
March 22, 2000... CHARLES G. RUSSELL [*] Part I When We Perceive, Do We "Discover" or "Conclude"? WHEN SOMEONE perceives something, what happens? Your answer to this question can help you understand how you conceptualize perception. If you view...

A SPEECHECTOMY WITHOUT TEARS.
March 22, 2000... PAUL DENNITHORNE JOHNSTON [*] Pang's First Words, Live DURING THE initial nineteen years of his life, our hero was unaware of the existence of language (the thinking and communicating tool we usually take for granted). When he'd...

RESOLVING RESOLUTION: An Introduction to Resolution.
March 22, 2000... MARK A. RAIMER [*] ALFRED KORZYBSKI wrote in his magnum opus Science and Sanity that "on different orders of abstractions [words] may have different meaning, with the result that they have no general meaning; for their meanings are...

HOW WE MIGHT USE DEMAMAPS IN COUNSELING.
March 22, 2000... GARDNER GATELEY [*] COUNSELING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY often involve changing a client's demamaps. Demamaps are decision-making maps, (MacNeal, 1997). (See also Gateley, 1999 for extended discussion of demamaps.) Goal-directed decision-making...

THOMAS KUHN'S THE STRUCTURE OF SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS.
March 22, 2000... LISA J. ROBERTS [*] In the preface to The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn cites as unifying many of his studies a problem-structure and orientation including "the way in which the experimental bases of a new theory are...

THE TROJAN HORSE METAPHOR.
March 22, 2000... RAYMOND GOZZI, JR. [*] AS COMPUTER NETWORKS become more pervasive in everyday life, there are more reasons for people to want to tamper with them. Because e-commerce attracts more and more money to the internet, the old-fashioned game of...

GENERAL SEMANTICS ON THE INTERNET.
March 22, 2000... STEVE STOCKDALE [*] IN DECEMBER 1999, while surfing and searching the Internet for references to Korzybski and general semantics, I stumbled upon this link: [less than]www. utexas.edu/coc/joumalism/Js363/lectures/lect11728/sid00l...

WHY THE CONCERN ABOUT Y2K?
March 22, 2000... GREGG HOFFMANN [*] Notes Written Before January 1, 2000 FOR MONTHS, we have been reading and seeing "the sky is falling" predictions about what will happen when the calendar moves to 1/1/00. We have been told to stock up on food...

Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything.(Review)
March 22, 2000... James Gleick. Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything. New York: Pantheon, 1999. As we enter the new millennium, we have become a quick-reflexed, multi-tasking, channel-flipping, fast-forwarding species. So says James Gleick in...

The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, 17th Edition.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Mark H. Beers and Robert Berkow. The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, 17th Edition. Whitehouse Station, New Jersey: Merck Research Laboratories, 1999. The Merck Manual is the oldest continuously published general medical textbook in...

The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Robert Kaplan. The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1999. In a rare book that is part detective story, part biography, part history, and interesting throughout, author Robert Kaplan...

FIFTY YEARS AGO IN ETC.
March 22, 2000... New Techniques Of Agreement If we define semantics as the study of the ways in which human beings interact through the use of linguistic and other symbols, our first task is to distinguish between the kinds of interaction that result from...

CULTURE, LANGUAGE AND BEHAVIOR.(Review)
March 22, 2000... An important theme of this book is that language and cognition combine with direct experiences and contribute to "indirect perception." Our culture, language, education, values, and experience act as filters of our direct experiences, which...

E-PRIME, [Sigma]EOS, AND THE GENERAL SEMANTICS PARADIGM: Revolution, Devolution, or Evolution?(Review)
March 22, 2000... Paradigm Wars Controversies have plagued the general semantics community for many years. Dr. X accuses Professor Y of distorting the fundamental principles; Professor Y says Dr. X refuses to explore new ground. Arguments, acrimonious...