Korzybski

 Structure in Science and a matching language

after referencing russell (positivist) and wittgenstein


'...under such empirical conditions, only a language originating in the analysis of collections, and, therefore a language of 'relations', 'order' would have a similar structure to the world around us. [looking for a better language to match empirical-positivist science - with all the social implications latent].  From the use of a subject-predicate form of language alone, many of our fallacious anti-social and 'individualistic' metaphysics and s.r [semantic reactions - words creating a nervous response] follow...


Benjamin on the Novel vs Storytelling- Information - the novel-information as debased

 From the storyteller:  [this was written in the 1930s, amazing] Every morning, news reaches us, from around the globe.  And yet we lack rem...