Language in Thought and Action
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Language in Thought and Action
S. I. Hayakawa
6 people recommended it in 6 threads, 2007–2022.
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Language in Thought and Action by S. I. Hayakawa is an introduction to General Semantics and deals with the limitations of language-oriented mental models, e.g. "the map is not the territory," a reminder that a model is just a model and not reality (or what Joel Spolsky would call "a leaky abstraction").
There is a LOT in the book, but at a minimum it made me think analytically about language and "news".
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