Harold in Clifton Park, N.Y., wrote recently to ask me about the grammar of the sentences “I couldn’t care less” and “I could care less.” Until then, I thought there were just two kinds of people in ...

Each person's perception is individually unique and subjective (Cytowic 2018.) Anesthesia is the phenomenon of no sensation. Synesthesia is the phenomenon of multiple sensations. Human senses include ...

In our quest to build and grow the enterprise of the future, we should always keep an eye on what’s going on in the knowledge sciences. One of the more interesting places to explore in that mysterious ...

Semantics are important. They tell us what something means. Without semantics you just have a jumble of syntax. The better defined the semantics are, the less likely something is to be mis-interpreted ...

The interfaces used in business intelligence and data analytics are becoming smarter, conversational, and more powerful because, at long last, computational semantics are starting to be applied. The ...

Do people view color differently based on language? This beautiful visualization by Muyueh Lee tries to get a handle on the semantics of color by using the Chinese and English versions of Wikipedia as ...

THE TYRANNY OF WORDS—Stuart Chase —Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). In 1914 a 26-year-old Boston accountant named Stuart Chase took his bride on a strange honeymoon. They poked through slums, pretended to be ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information ETC: A Review of General Semantics is a quarterly journal founded in 1943 by the International Society for General Semantics. ISGS ...