Language

"For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible" - Stuart Chase

The Chase is Still On - by Joe Sinclair

It's been almost ten years since Nurturing Potential last featured Stuart Chase in an article on Language.  You can find that article here http://www.nurturingpotential.net/Issue16/Language16.htm

Time enough for another look at this amazing author who did so much to popularize linguistics in the 1930s.  His Tyranny of Words was inspired by Korzybski's Science and Sanity.  Published in 1938 reads as freshly today as when it first met the public gaze.

Let's have a look at Chapter 10.