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ARISTOTELIAN ENCODING IN RESPONSE TO "A DISCUSSION OF UNIT 4, COMMENTARY ON ACTIVITY 7"

ntence is the predicator "is" (and indeed, any form of the verb "to be") which is a problem since it implies equality of content and purpose. For this concept, we can thank (or blame) Aristotle, the Greek scholar who gave us the concept of "identity," referred to by him in the formula "A is A."

Korzybski argued that each human being is born into a culture of beliefs, customs, and languages that shape our "mental maps", and, all too often, teachers encourage the adoption of prefabricated mental maps. All of us have experienced a language training class when vocabulary building was used as the primary source of communication, and have experienced a teacher pointing to a picture, or a real object, and "naming" the object in the particular language.

He or she might hold up a writing pen and say "Yung Jungwen, jeige shr bi; yung Fawen jeige shr "La plume;" yung Yingwen, jeige shr "pen." This is an excellent technique to use, but it also has the danger of creating false or erroneous "Map/Territory" thinking. The encoded words used to describe the writing pen object,"bi", "la plume", and "pen", are mutually accepted sounds that a society uses to communicate concepts and beliefs.

Korzybski suggests an alternative approach, one which is called "E-prime" and which uses a simple method of developing the Map/Territory (MT) awareness. Bourland (1975) in her excellent article "A Linguistic Note: Writing in E-Prime," explains Korzybski's "E-Prime" as an English language derivative that eliminates any use of the verb "to be" (basically am, is, was, are, and were).

In this article Bourland argued for the use of E-Prime as a writing discipline that allows one to minimize many "false to facts" linguistic patterns inherent in ordinary language usage. Although a full discussion of E-Prime would require a much lengthier paper, for purposes of this argument, we will deal with one aspect of the concept. It can eliminate the "false to fa...

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