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Buddha was reported to have at first refused to teach because he said no one would get it. Then was convinced because maybe a few people would. There is a zen tenet that goes something like "when you encounter incongruities between what you wish was true and what actually is, there is nothing...

Any solution that requires everyone else to understand d something is no solution at all

It seems to me that the only people with the right to an opinion on the subject are women.

I do think it is the kind of thing that when you first really internalize what it means, it shows up as a brand new insight and feels like no one has ever explained it correctly before. Truth as a pathless land kind of thing. I know it did for me anyway.

That is the entire point of general semantics

Agree very much. He did what they asked and it turned out they hadn't really understood what they wanted.

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To his credit, he did a number on that one in his dissolution speech.

I very much think LSD therapy should be at least strongly encouraged at 18 and then again at all the decades. Brains need it.

Over the years, I have gradually found that i am fitting all the philosophy that interests me within Kuhn's paradigm concept.

I just realized my autocorrect needs to be punished for the various things it tries to do to Hayakawa. Anyway, I haven't read them for decades but I read both relatively thoroughly long ago. Before this thread veers off course, I think it's important to note that Korzybski is dead and, whether...

He had some things to say about people who saw him as a guru.

One of the concepts that has influenced me greatly, that I probably got from Pirsig rather than J Krishnamurti although the latter did I think a good job of explaining it here: https://jkrishnamurti.org/about-dissolution-speech Is that truth is a pathless land. Everyone gets a profound insight...

I don't know how to edit posts apparently.

And autopoeisis does not violate the second law even though entropy within is negative. I get where you're coming from but I work with complex dynamic systems and the language problem is a big issue. It's not really which view is True with a capital T so much as that reductionism and the...

Yes. That is the general point. While I did read Science and Sanity, I found it hard to get past the writing. Hayawatha's "Language in Thought and Action" I thought made it much more plain. The part I took from is is the implied subject problem. If I say, "blonds are cuter than brunettes" one...

In Buddhism this is called dukkha and samsara, in Taoism it is called the way, in xianity it is illustrated in parables culminating in turning the other cheek. One of my favorite thinkers of all time, Thich Nat Han, illustrates the concept in a poem called Call Me By My True Names...

Exactly. How our sense of the world develops and what feeds it are possibly the most profound questions facing humans. It's why religion can still be relevant in an age where magic and miracles are no longer valid causal forces. So I can read the first 3 chapters metaphorically and see some...

The implied subject that universalizes a point of view is one of the more vexing problems of language. The biomechanics of the eye do not seem to be required to understand this problem.