Korzybski Revisited -  by Joe Sinclair

Alfred Korzybski has been sadly neglected for many decades, having been overtaken in popular esteem, in linguistical circles, by such luminaries as Noam Chomsky.

To some extent it is the fault of the great man's own adherents that this has happened.  Just as modern linguists ignore Korzybski, so the followers of Korzybski tend to ignore developments in the field that Korzybski himself might have urged them to consider as an effective modifier of his own material.

And if he is remembered at all, today, it is more than likely that it will be by virtue of his enduring phrase: The map is not the territory.

Well, it was a long time ago that Joe Sinclair was accused of unfairly ignoring Korzybski in one of his books, so - belatedly - he here makes amends.

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