Gad Horowitz introduces Radical General Semantics [(r)GS] in a keynote address at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 2010.
The introductory Radical General Semantics lecture:
[(r)GS] in relation to continental philosophy
Introduction to the structural differential
Introduction to the devices of General Semantics.
[(r)GS] and the spirit of democracy
Unsanity: identification of map and territory
Semantic blocks in actually existing democracies
Alfred Korzybski and the general semantics movement
The unfortunate ‘is’ of identity.
Korzybski’s Structural Differential:
The event level: what is going on (WIGO)
The object level: sensory experience inside and outside the skin
The distinctively human label levels: language, language about language, etc.
Is of identity and is of predication
Neurological transform of the event
Linguistic transform of the object
Just seeing and seeing-as
Semantic blocks and damaged life
Silent practice.
Total domination by verbal definition: the intensional orientation
Sanity: the extensional orientation
The Name of God
Teleology and perversion
Nonlinear life, sex, etc.
Sam Mallin's concept of sinuosity.
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