[etni] binder, bind, bound

  • From: Israel Cohen <cohen.izzy@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:02:37 +0200

Very thought-provoking and poetic item by James Harbeck in his
*Sesquiotica*blog today:
*binder, bind, bound*
http://sesquiotic.wordpress.com/author/sesquiotic/
The word is not the thing, and the map is not the territory, but ...
weoften act like they are.

Reminds me of General Semantics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_semantics
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_semantics>
I knew him when he was just a bird colonel.

Shades of Alfred Korzybski
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Korzybski
and
S. I. Hayakawa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_I._Hayakawa

Ciao,
Izzy


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