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gen·er·al semantics (j

n. (used with a sing. verb)

A discipline developed by Alfred Korzybski that proposes to improve human behavioral responses through a more critical use of words and symbols.

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Mary Morain is past-president of the International Society for General Semantics, has served on birth-control boards in Massachusetts and San Francisco, and has lectured and written widely on the need for population-growth control.

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