Recreating (and advancing) pk’s censored domains:
Knatz.com / Teaching / Society / Social Survival / Sentience, Social Semantics /
Survival | Sentience | Semiotics | Semantics |
A — L
Agree to Disagree
If You See the Buddha
Counterfeit Claims
Cannibals & Missionaries
Eew, Disgusting!
Drug Line
Economics of Disarmament
Exceptional Ism
Four-Letter Words
Gender Logic
Institutionalizing Relations
Learning vs Education
The Little Children
If You See the Buddha
Counterfeit Claims
Cannibals & Missionaries
Eew, Disgusting!
Drug Line
Economics of Disarmament
Exceptional Ism
Four-Letter Words
Gender Logic
Institutionalizing Relations
Learning vs Education
The Little Children
M — Z
Majority Delusion
Might vs. Right
Nazi 2
Duplicate Original
Potemkin Olympics
Publicity
Social Facts
State Chattel
Symbolic Lies, $1
Territory, Map, Man
Understanding: Social
Understanding Scrapbook
Be My Valentine
Might vs. Right
Nazi 2
Duplicate Original
Potemkin Olympics
Publicity
Social Facts
State Chattel
Symbolic Lies, $1
Territory, Map, Man
Understanding: Social
Understanding Scrapbook
Be My Valentine
Semantics
How we use language to edit reality
without knowing we’re doing it
without knowing we’re doing it
I got my obsession with semantics from Gregory Bateson who got his from Alfred Korzybski. But these days I prefer to talk about the set semantics as a subset of semiotics.
But: I’ve already called a section of my Thinking Tools by that name. This other semiotics section is in my Society section: under Survival. Being able to think is prerequisite to being able to think about society: so this area gets the secondary appellation. Understand: the label is semantics, the subject is social understanding.
This section parallels the Sentience & Semiotics menu The relevant sections are Teaching / Society / Social Epistemology and Teaching / Society / Social Survival / Semantics … It’s also Social Order, and Thinking Tools …
Society and its Pathologies