Comments on: The World of Null-A http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2003/04/26/the-world-of-null-a/ Cheating on the Kobayashi Maru since 2001 Tue, 12 May 2026 08:47:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: Jim French http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2003/04/26/the-world-of-null-a/#comment-341 Wed, 15 Oct 2003 05:26:01 +0000 http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2003/04/26/the-world-of-null-a/#comment-341 P.S. Don't try to understand general semantics by reading about it on the Web (as most sites will only confuse you). Rather, read Science and Sanity. As the late neurologist Dr. Russell Meyers once described it: "The most profound, insightful, and globally significant book I have ever read." Jim P.S. Don’t try to understand general semantics by reading about it on the Web (as most sites will only confuse you). Rather, read Science and Sanity. As the late neurologist Dr. Russell Meyers once described it: “The most profound, insightful, and globally significant book I have ever read.”

Jim

]]> by: Jim French http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2003/04/26/the-world-of-null-a/#comment-340 Wed, 15 Oct 2003 05:13:01 +0000 http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2003/04/26/the-world-of-null-a/#comment-340 Science fiction aside, I would point out that two of the most prominent general semanticists of the 20th Century were women, M. Kendig and Charlotte Schuchardt Read, both of whom at different times held the top position at the Institute of General Semantics (Director). As for "wacky pseudo-science", the late, prominent scientist, Doctor W. Horsley Gantt, who had worked with Pavlov in Leningrad for several years, wrote the following: "I have read with great interest Count Korzybski's Science and Sanity and feel that it is very important for science as well as general education and progress of human thinking. . . I was particularly interested in the chapters dealing with conditional reflexes. Korzybski discusses the matter with profound and accurate understanding, and the suggestions he makes are most timely and helpful to those who are working in this field. Anyone interested in the broader aspects of science I am sure will find in Korzybski's book an original and far-sighted view of the whole modern teaching of the subject." Jim Science fiction aside, I would point out that two of the most prominent general semanticists of the 20th Century were women, M. Kendig and Charlotte Schuchardt Read, both of whom at different times held the top position at the Institute of General Semantics (Director).

As for “wacky pseudo-science”, the late, prominent scientist, Doctor W. Horsley Gantt, who had worked with Pavlov in Leningrad for several years, wrote the following:

“I have read with great interest Count Korzybski’s Science and Sanity and feel that it is very important for science as well as general education and progress of human thinking. . . I was particularly interested in the chapters dealing with conditional reflexes. Korzybski discusses the matter with profound and accurate understanding, and the suggestions he makes are most timely and helpful to those who are working in this field. Anyone interested in the broader aspects of science I am sure will find in Korzybski’s book an original and far-sighted view of the whole modern teaching of the subject.”

Jim

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