CONCEPTS The idea of grasping word meanings conceptually is something new to the field of linguistics. The endless semantic circles pursued by Korzybski and company (see Data Series 1, THE ANATOMY OF THOUGHT[1. See Data Series 1R, re semantics. Management Series Volume 1, pp. 3-9. PDF format. ]) never really led to the realization that a word and its meanings are embodied in the basic concept or idea symbolized by that word. That conceptualization of meanings is foreign to dictionary writers … [Read more...] about HCOB: Superliteracy and the Cleared Word (1974)
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Lecture: Dianetic Auditing And The Mind (1966)
I know, it’s fashionable for the newspapers to say I never went to college, and there are several colleges at this particular time that are wishing that I hadn’t gone there. But I can also assure you that you give them another decade or so, those colleges I haven’t even done more than go to a prom at will have some plates on them. You know? Man is silly, you see? Anyway, in college we were taking atomic molecular phenomena, which is a very interesting subject. And they should have left it … [Read more...] about Lecture: Dianetic Auditing And The Mind (1966)
Lecture: A Review of Study (1964)
Now, if you know education - and you know our technology of education now - you will see at once exactly what must have happened. Way back here in kindergarten or someplace the Communist love of the reevaluation of words caught him. The favorite trick of the Communist is not to change anybody’s vocabulary but to make it mean something else. They change the meaning of words so therefore everything sounds familiar. The next thing you know a person finds that the word means something else entirely … [Read more...] about Lecture: A Review of Study (1964)
Newsletter: Associate Newsletter No. 4 (1953)
Germane to funds, I am recently in receipt of material from George Seidler suggesting an alternative in certifications and carrying with it the news that Sequoia University[1. Wikipedia: Sequoia University. "Sequoia University was an unaccredited higher education institution in Los Angeles, California which acquired a reputation as a prolific "degree mill" selling degree certificates. Although it was shut down in 1984 by a court order, it is most notable today as the institution from which L. … [Read more...] about Newsletter: Associate Newsletter No. 4 (1953)
Magazine article: Child Scientology (1953)
Let us be very blunt–we are not interested in the problems of the child’s mind. In Scientology, we are no longer concerned with the inopportune and conceited short-circuit between epistemology and the human brain which has resulted in the “science” of psychotherapy. The Scientologist practicing with groups of children should disabuse anyone in authority of any lingering thought that the Scientologist might be using psychotherapy. The concern of psychotherapy is with the thinking processes of the … [Read more...] about Magazine article: Child Scientology (1953)