Alfred Korzybski
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Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski (July 3, 1879 – March 1, 1950) was a Polish-American independent scholar who developed a field called general semantics, which he viewed as both distinct from, and more encompassing than, the field of semantics.
He argued that human knowledge of the world is limited both by the human nervous system and the languages humans have developed, and thus no one can have direct access to reality, given that the most we can know is that which is filtered through the brain's responses to reality.
His best known dictum is "The map is not the territory".
Early life and career
Born in Warsaw, Vistula, which was then part of the Russian Empire, Korzybski belonged to an aristocratic Polish family whose members had worked as mathematicians, researchers, and engineers for generations. He learned the Polish language at home and the Russian language in schools, as well as having a French and German governess, and became fluent in four languages as a child.
Korzybski studied engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology. Korzybski served as an intelligence officer in the Russian Army during the First World War (1914-1918). After being wounded in a leg and suffering other injuries, he travelled to North America in 1916 (first to Canada and then to the United States) to coordinate artillery shipment to Russia. He also lectured Polish-American audiences about the war, promoting the selling of war bonds. After the war, he decided to remain in the United States, becoming a naturalized citizen in 1940. Mira Edgerly, a portraitist on ivory, was born in 1919; the couple married in January 1919; the marriage lasted until his death.
In 1921, E. P. Dutton published Manhood of Humanity, Korzybski's first book. He formulated and articulated a new model of humankind: humanity as a "time-binding" class of life (humans achieve time binding by the transfer of knowledge and abstractions through time, which has become embedded in cultures).