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By Alfred Korzybski  Posted by Jimmy Walter (about the submitter)       (Page 4 of 6 pages) Become a premium member to see this article and all articles as one long page.   2 comments
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We should not be surprised that we find meaningless noises in the foundation of many old "philosophies', and that from them arise most of the old "philosophical' fights and arguments.

 

The main thesis of this non-Aristotelian system is that as yet we all (with extremely few exceptions) copy animals in our nervous processes, and that practically all human difficulties, mental ills " have this " component.

 

If, in spite of all contrary evidence, or the lack of positive evidence, [a person] holds persistently " such affective beliefs is seriously ill, and, therefore, no amount of evidence can convince him.

 

 

It is now no mystery that some quite influential "philosophers' were "mentally' ill.

 

"a few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called "critical philosophy' and to the theory of knowledge or epistemology . This class of workers I call epistemologists to avoid the disagreeable implications of the term "philosopher'.

 

"provided we could define all terms. But this is impossible" We thus see that all linguistic schemes, if analyzed far enough, would depend on undefined terms.

 

A Game: We begin by asking the meaning of every word uttered"Then we ask the meaning of the words used in the definitions and, and this process is continued for no more than ten or fifteen minutes until the victim begins to speak in circles"

 

Order seems neurologically simpler and more fundamental than relation. It is a characteristic of the empirical which we recognize directly with our lower nervous centers (senses), and with which we can deal with great accuracy by our higher nervous centers (thinking). " so structurally it must be fundamental

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