Word: counts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reviewer read the book . . . He refers to the two leading characters of the book as "Kristina" and "her daughter, Countess Zia" . . . He need only have gone as far as page 11 to find out this basic fact: the book is primarily the story of two daughters of Count Dukay, Kristina...
Yale University had never had a guest lecturer quite like the count. He was an egg-bald old (69) gentleman who dressed in Army-style suntans, refused to wear a coat or tie, and spent most of his time in a chromium wheelchair (he was badly wounded in World War I). At times, he would bellow at his audience ("Can you hear me in the rear echelon?"), then let his voice trail to a mumble...
...when something pleased him, a chilling sneer when something did not. Sometimes he gesticulated wildly, once seemed near tears. Often he seemed merely bored ("Bah, I speak baby stuff!"). But whatever his crotchets, students and professors at Yale last week were flocking to the special seminar of Polish-born Count Alfred Korzybski...
Statements & Statements. Life, says the count, is made up of nonverbal facts, each one different from another and each one forever changing. A man's nervous system can never take in all the characteristics of a particular fact: it merely "abstracts" certain parts and reacts to those. After abstracting once, a man will abstract again to make a verbal statement about the fact. He can then go on to make statements about statements about statements...
...think-and hence to talk clearly-a man must not only be conscious of the abstracting process, but he must also know the nature of a fact. He must remember that he never knows all about a "fact": there is always, as the count says, the "etc." Secondly, a fact (pencil x or John Smith) is not the same today as it was yesterday. A, despite Aristotle, is not always A. Therefore, "you must not think 'I am going in to dinner now,' " says the count. "You must think, 'I, February 1949, am going in to dinner...