Science and Sanity

Hmm. Not to repeat, I think I must dig deep into the archives... Korzybski, Alfred. Science and Sanity. Institute of GS, 1958. [1] The Institute of General Semantics has a current website [2], is on Facebook, and has several articles on Wikipedia.org [3]. One of the mind-bending premises (Wikipedia.org): "Non-Aristotelianism: While Aristotle wrote a true definition gives the essence of the thing defined ..., general semantics denies the existence of such an 'essence'. [...] In general semantics, it is always possible to give a description of empirical facts, but such descriptions remain just that—descriptions—which necessarily leave out many aspects of the objective, microscopic, and submicroscopic events they describe. According to general semantics, language, natural or otherwise ... can be used to describe the taste of an orange, but one cannot give the taste of the orange using language alone." [1]: https://books.google.com/books/about/Science_and_Sanity.html? [2]: http://www.generalsemantics.org/ [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_General_Semantics