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Comment author: buybuydandavis 07 December 2014 09:46:09PM 3 points [-]

On the charges of neologisms for old ideas and the repetitive claims, my recollection is that those were intentional moves on Korzybski's part.

The repetition was to develop semantic habits - to actually change people. The neologisms were for creating new semantic habits, without carrying the semantic baggage of the old terms for the "same" ideas into the new.