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Subject: Re: The Importance of Literacy
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Date: Mon, 4-May-87 20:42:13 EDT
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  You might be interested in Count Alfred Korzybsky (sp). He developped
  the "science" of general semantics. One of the things he posits as
  man's greatest tool is his ability to "timebind". Ie write down
  things to pass own to generations.

  In all aspects I agree, yet it takes a superior writer to not only
  patiently describe the "bones" and "muscles" type facts of a thing,
  but to animate that spectre to live again in the minds of another
  generation.

  Or in another  way:
    teacher -- two and two are four
     child -- I know that ... but what's a two?

Richard Karasik
sun!arete!richard