一般意味論序説 : SCIENCE & SANITYをめぐりて

抄録

General Semantics is not a new science. It dates back to 1933 when Alfred Korzybski's Science and Sanity was first published in New York. In view of the semantic disturbances prevalent all over the world, however, his contentions seem to deserve a renewed attention. The purpose of this paper is to review his theory from the purely methodological point of view. The modern trends of science of meaning may be safely divided into the science of methods and the science of signs. The logical foundation of General Semantics in a word the non-Aristotelian revision of all language activities in the light of all outstanding contributions of the modern sciences. General Semantics is a unified science. The claim for the anthropological revolution from the science of the man to the science of a man, in parallel with the scientific transformation from the, geometry to a geometry, from the Universe to a universe, implies the unique aspect of General Semantics. The theory of the structural unconscious supposedly imbedded in any form of linguistic representation is undoubtedly one of the major contribution's of General. Semantics. In the light of this thoery, the science of meaning will undergo a revolutionary change. The therapeutic aspect of General Semantics is omitted, as it is extensively dealt with by Mr. Hayakawa in his Language in Thought and Actim.