3 Alfred Korzybski Quotes on Logic

Alfred Korzybski quotes on logic

14. Any proposition containing the word 'is' creates a linguistical structural confusion which will eventually give birth to serious fallacies.

27. [A Game:] We begin by asking the meaning of every word uttered:Then we ask the meaning of the words used in the definitions and, and this process is continued for no more than ten or fifteen minutes until the victim begins to speak in circles...

28. ...provided we could define all terms. But this is impossible... We thus see that all linguistic schemes, if analyzed far enough, would depend on undefined terms.