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Alfred Korzybski, an Uncommon card
Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski was a Polish-American philosopher and independent scholar who developed a field called general semantics, which he viewed as both distinct from, and more encompassing than, the field of semantics.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 64
- DEF
- 37
- Power
- 101
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 43,000
Power 101 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He is most notable for proposing that human knowledge of the world is limited both by the human nervous system and the languages humans have developed, and thus no one can have direct access to reality, given that the most we can know is that which is filtered through the brain's responses to reality.
- His best known dictum is "The map is not the territory".
- Many of his ideas and theories were presented in his book Science and Sanity, which became the foundational text of general semantics.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Alfred Korzybski article was read about 43,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 64 and blocks with 37: each hit it takes is cut by 15 %.
How to get Alfred Korzybski
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Alfred Korzybski (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : The original uploader was Kinar at Polish Wikipedia ., CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
