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The article focuses on the academic discipline called general semantics, which was developed by the philosopher Alfred Korzybski, and its influence on the work of the science fiction author Robert Heinlein. The article includes excerpts from a speech made by Heinlein at the World Science Fiction Con...
| Publicado en: | ETC: A Review of General Semantics Vol. 64; no. 4; pp. 326 - 333 |
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Institute of General Semantics, Inc.
Oct2007
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| Sumario: | The article focuses on the academic discipline called general semantics, which was developed by the philosopher Alfred Korzybski, and its influence on the work of the science fiction author Robert Heinlein. The article includes excerpts from a speech made by Heinlein at the World Science Fiction Convention in 1941. Examples of other science fiction authors and how they were influenced by general semantics are also explored, and the general principles of the discipline are presented. |
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