Alfred Korzybski, Polish-American mathematician, linguist, and philosopher (died 1950)

Alfred Korzybski

Polish-American scholar and philosopher (1879–1950)

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 than, the field of semantics. He argued that human knowledge of the world is…