Philosophers Alfred Korzybski

Alfred Korzybski

Living place: Poland

Birthday: 3-7-1879

Global rank: #88457

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Who is Philosophers Alfred Korzybski?
Remembering for his fundamental work in the philosophical sciences and the perception of semantics in general, this early twentieth-century scholar coined the famous phrase "the map is not the territory" to describe it. his theory that representations of reality do not constitute reality itself.
He founded and headed the Institute of General Semantics, which operated out of Chicago, Illinois, until the mid-1940s, when it moved its headquarters to Lakeville, Connecticut.
 
 

Young / Before famous

After studying engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology, he served in the Russian Army as a World War I-era intelligence officer. He published his first philosophical work, the masculinity of humanity, in the early 1920s.

Family life info

He grew up in a wealthy and highly educated family in Warsaw, Poland. He later settled in the United States and began a marriage of more than three decades to portrait painter Mira Edgerly.

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In the late 1930s, American pseudo-defeated William S. Burroughs, then only twenty-five years old, attended a general semantics conference Korzybski's.

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When was Philosophers Alfred Korzybski born?
Alfred Korzybski was born in 3-7-1879, death year is , at the age of 145.
Where is Philosophers Alfred Korzybski's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Alfred Korzybski was born in Poland. is a Philosophers, whose Zodiac is Cancer, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Cat. Alfred Korzybski's global rank is 88457 and whose rank is 205 in list of famous Philosophers.
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Birthday Alfred Korzybski (3-7) in history

  • Day 3-7 year 1608: Captain Samuel de Champlain founded the Canadian city of Quebec.
  • Day 3-7 year 1775: Commander in chief George Washington took command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass.
  • Day 3-7 year 1863: The Battle of Gettysburg ended.
  • Day 3-7 year 1890: Idaho became the 43rd state in the United States.
  • Day 3-7 year 1930: The U.S. Veterans Administration was created by Congress.
  • Day 3-7 year 1962: Jackie Robinson became the first African-American to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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