I was and am very influenced by Stuart Chase’s The Tyranny of Words—what I took away from it is to be aware that you never have the complete story, and that statements frequently need to be pinned down as to time, place, and degree of generality.
Cognitive psychology has a lot of overlap with general semantics—I don’t know whether there was actual influence or independent invention of ideas.
I was and am very influenced by Stuart Chase’s The Tyranny of Words—what I took away from it is to be aware that you never have the complete story, and that statements frequently need to be pinned down as to time, place, and degree of generality.
Cognitive psychology has a lot of overlap with general semantics—I don’t know whether there was actual influence or independent invention of ideas.