TO SIMPLEX
I look forward to your evaluation messages about General Semantics, and don't forget William of Occam's Razor cam! (Simplicity as a methods) I mean Steven Lewis as linked earlier here is Biology teacher at High School and general semanticist and even a Scientology critic evident in his link to Scientology Audited, a critical investigation about Scientology. He has an index there with short and comprehensive items, like A diagram of the abstraction process, and General Semantics perspective on critical thinking, and so forth in a daily language aimed at educate in an introductory level!

Steven Lewis link will give you a structural feeling and understanding regarding General Semantics as a Science-Mathematical method in daily living!

Best regards

OK Peter, two brand new quotes to think about:

OK Peter, two brand new quotes to think about:

TO SIMPLEX
Good quotes and I have also read them in Korzybski's principal work Science and Sanity a book on 806 pages, and I am in the end of his book Manhood of Humanity a general theory of Time-binding and Science and art of human Engineering!

Thus I am familiar with the issue!

Best regards

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Is Tigger confused again? Is this thread supposed to be just for quotes? Are not discussions/debates about philosophy or anything else supposed to have a thread of their own?

Tigger quotes for Thursday

"The truth shall make you free."
John 8:32

and

"I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell." Harry S. Truman

How about --

"There are lies; damned lies; and statistics."
--Winston Churchill

Daffy

"Fear believes -- courage doubts. Fear falls upon the earth and prays -- courage stands erect and thinks. Fear is barbarism -- courage is civilization. Fear believes in witchcraft, in devils and in ghosts. Fear is religion, courage is science."

- Robert G. Ingersoll

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts — for support rather than for illumination."

- Andrew Long

PS: The other quote about statistics is actually attributed Benjamin Disraeli:

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

"The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear."

-Herbert Agar (A Time for Greatness [1942])

"The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other."

- Sir Francis Bacon

"Skepticism´s bad rap arises from the impression that, however necessary the activity, it can only be regarded as a negative removal of false claims. Not so... Proper debunking is done in the interest of an alternate model of explanation, not as a nihilistic exercise. The alternate model is rationality itself, tied to moral decency--the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known."

-Stephen Jay Gould, from Michael Shermer, "Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition & Other Confusions of Our Time", p. xii

"Why do I want to believe what I believe?... Science, to put it somewhat vulgarly, is a technique to keep yourself from kidding yourself."

- Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land, p. 12

This is a quote posted on "Millennium", I like it:

"A man's past is not simply a dead history...it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavours and the tinglings of a merited shame."

George Elliot

and...

"The cruelest lies are often told in silence." Robert Louis Stevenson