Alfred Korzybski
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Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski 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
Alfred Korzybski
S. I. Hayakawa
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Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa was a Canadian-born American academic and politician of Japanese ancestry. A professor of English, he served as president of San Francisco State University and then as a U.S. Se
Alfred Korzybski
…Burroughs went to a Korzybski workshop in the autumn of 1939. He was 25 years old, and paid $40. His fellow students—there were 38 in all—included young Samuel I. Hayakawa (later to become a Republican member of the U.S. Senate) and Wendell Johnson (founder of the Monster Study). Korzybski's work had a positive reception…
Official portrait, 1981
Hayakawa (top row, left) with other staff members of The Rocking Horse, a student paper at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1934
Portrait by Harold Hone c. 1936
Hayakawa, while campaigning for US Senate in 1976