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About General Semantics
General Semantics helps you differentiate, and integrate, what we might think of as four different 'worlds':
- the world 'out there', beyond your skin, that's always changing, in perpetual process
- the world 'in here', inside your skin, your nervous system and senses, through which you (only partially) experience the world 'out there'
- the world that's not words, the sensory or non-verbal world that you see, hear, taste, smell and touch
- the world of words, your verbal world of names, symbols, labels, opinions, assumptions, categories, values, beliefs, etc.
In our verbal world of words, we integrate what we 'know' about the world 'out there', the world 'in here' and the world that's not words. This is not that.
General Semantics deals with the process of how we
Perceive, Construct, Evaluate, and Respond
to our life experiences. Our language-behaviors represent one aspect of these responses.
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