Set of 3: Introductory Lectures in GS, Monograph III, and Monogr

Set of three books/booklets including:

Francis P. Chisholm, Introductory Lectures on General Semantics, 1944, 14th printing, (1983). ISBN 0-910780-05-6. vi + 126 pp. Focuses on the important contributions general semantics can make to general education and “the gravity of the problems involved in all science and human evaluation which arise from the necessary limitations of human formulations.”

T. C. Pollock and J. G. Spaulding, General Semantics Monograph III "A Theory of Meaning Analyzed: Critique of I. A. Richards' "Theory of Language." Supplementary Paper "The Lexicographer and General Semantics" by Allen Walker Read. Foreword by A. Korzybski and M. Kendig, (1942). ISBN 0-910780-03-X. xvi +64 pp. Especially valuable for its Foreword by Korzybski and Kendig, which includes a discussion of the "logical fate" diagram and consequences of a change in premises.

Marjorie A. Swanson, General Semantics Monograph IV – Scientific Epistemologic Backgrounds of General Semantics, (1959). ISBN 0-910780-04-8. viii + 81 pp. Six lectures given at a general semantics seminar. Develops an understanding of scientific methods, relates colloidal behavior to semantic reactions, deals with aspects of epistemology, and discusses ethical consequences derived from science. Can be profitably read in conjunction with Book III of Science and Sanity or as a necessary minimum of scientific awareness without which the reader's general semantics might degenerate into mere 'philosophy,' 'linguistics,' etc.

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