There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

—Alfred Korzybski

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About Alfred Korzybski

Portrait of Alfred Korzybski

Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski ( kor-ZIB-skee, kə-ZHIP-skee; Polish: [ˈalfrɛt kɔˈʐɨpskʲi]; July 3, 1879 – March 1, 1950) was a Polish-American philosopher and independent scholar who developed a field called general semantics, which he viewed as both distinct from, and more encompassing than, the field of semantics.

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