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ChristianKl comments on Open Thread, September 23-29, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ChristianKl 26 September 2013 01:44:38PM *  2 points [-]

Non-violent communication is the intellectual heir of E-prime which was the heir of semantic concerns in General Semantics.

I don't think it makes sense to speak of a single framework as the heir of General Semantics. General Semantics influenced quite a lot.

General Semantics itself is quite complex. Nonviolent communication is pretty useless when you want to speak about scientific knowledge. General Semantics notions of thinking about relations and structure are on the other hand are quite useful.