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General Semantics

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

a doctrine and philosophical approach to language and its relationship to thought and behavior developed by Alfred Korzybski 1879 1950 which holds that the capacity to express ideas and thereby improve ones interaction with others and ones environment is enhanced by training in the more critical use of words and other symbols sometimes also called semantics

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