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From: trash@oliveb.UUCP (Tom Repa)
Newsgroups: sci.lang,sci.misc
Subject: Re: General Semantics
Message-ID: <4063@oliveb.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 28-Aug-87 17:35:12 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 28 17:35:12 1987
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in article <141@snark.UUCP>, eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond) says:
 >Xref: oliveb sci.lang:1236 rec.arts.sf-lovers:6588
 >In <1629@watcgl.waterloo.edu >, kdmoen@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Doug Moen) writes:
 >> (eg, his references to the discredited theory of General Semantics).

 > I *strongly* recommend to Mr. Moen and others interested in linguistics,
 > psychology or simply getting the best use out of one's cognitive equipment
 > that they forget the stench of Van Vogt and Hubbard and investigate General
 > Semantics *itself*. I had the good fortune to be exposed to GS in my early
 > teens fifteen years or so ago, and believe it has done more to help me use my
 > mind effectively than any other single part of my background (not excluding
 > my major in theoretical mathematics and minor in philosophy!).
 > -- 
 >  Eric S. Raymond
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	All right, I'll bite. How about some good references for 
me to read up on General Semantics? Clearly I can look up the authors
own works, but are there any others? I think Heinlein mentions GS in
one of his old books, but I didn't know it was a real theory.

				Tom Repa(trash@oliven)