Overview
- Six-tenths of a Second, Oswald Assassination
- Bias ingrained early, study says (N. Ireland)
- Postman, Huxley, and Angell quotes
Spiral Overview
- (Some) GS Key Terms
- To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence by James Elroy Flecker
- Quotes on Time-Binding
- Extra: Six-tenths of a second newspaper text
Scientific Approach
- W. Johnson’s Pre-scientific vs. Scientific Thinking
- Science as a Method for Everyday Life (S. Kodish)
- from Thinking as a Science by Henry Hazlitt
Abstracting, Evaluating
Verbal Awareness
- 13 Characteristics of Language with a Scientific Attitude
- Facts and Inferences
- GS Help Sheet
- The Weiss Test
- I think, therefore I can make linguistic choices/changes
- Roller Coaster Technique
- Dead-level Abstracting
- The Tragedy of Un-sane Communication
- Sloppy stats shame science
Sensory Awareness
- Creating Sense-able Questions for Silent-Level Experiments (B. Kodish)
- Count the Black Dots
- Dimples and Bumps
- Extra: Interview with Charlotte Read
- Extra: Perceiving Shape from Shading (V. Ramachandran)
Integration
- The Semantic Person
- (Some) Basic Understandings of General Semantics
- Lyrics, “No Such Thing” by John Mayer
- Quotes for Living at the “Height of the Times”
- Extra: “Response Side Semantics”
- Extra: Lee’s “The Semantic Man” transcript
- Extra: Lyrics, “Unwritten” by Natasha Bedingfield
- Extra: Changing Attitudes Towards Korzybski’s General Semantics (A.W. Read):
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- Extra: Changing Human Nature (D. Bourland)