Drive Yourself Sane: Using the Uncommon Sense of General Semantics |
Contents
List of Illustrations | 11 |
Uncommon Sense | 30 |
Endless Complexities | 45 |
The Process of Abstracting | 59 |
Mapping Structures | 74 |
The Structural Differential | 89 |
NonVerbal Awareness | 100 |
Verbal Awareness | 112 |
The Extensional Orientation | 157 |
Getting Extensional | 167 |
TimeBinding | 186 |
Et Cetera | 199 |
On General Semantics Organizations | 206 |
Notes | 215 |
References | 224 |
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Common terms and phrases
Albert Ellis Alfred Korzybski Allen Walker Read apple apply aristotelian aspects assumptions attitude behavior brain Bruce Chapter Collected Writings common sense communicate complex consider create descriptions develop discussion E-Prime ence environment Epimenides evaluate example extensional devices extensional orientation factors facts feel flash of color formulated function happen higher-order abstractions human individual inferences intensional INTENSIONAL DEFINITION involves Kodish label language lateral thinking lead level of abstraction lives logical fate look lower-order mean multiordinality nervous system neuro-evaluational neuro-linguistic non-additive non-aristotelian noted notion observations ourselves perceptions perhaps person premises problems process of abstracting process world recognize refer relations represents revising Robert Pula Science and Sanity self-reflexiveness semanticist silent silent-level situation someone statements structural differential submicroscopic suggest Susan talk territory theory things time-binding tions trashmen uncommon sense variables verbal level vertical thinking Wendell Johnson words