Volume 71, Number 1 (January 2014), of the Institute of General Semantics's quarterly journal ETC: A Review of General Semantics has been mailed and is now available for download from the IGS Store in searchable PDF format.

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Table of Contents Preview

• "The Cult/Ure of Personality" by Thom Gencarelli
• "A Time to Keep Silence, and a Time to Speak" by Michael Moore
• "Ten Common Blocks to Clear Thinking with General Semantics Correctives" by Martin H. Levinson
• "[P] etc." by Dominic Heffer
• "Ten Cautionary GS Lessons from World War I" by Martin H. Levinson
• "Indexing, Dating, Etc., in Higher Education" by Gary H. Mayer
• "Awareness and Action: A General Semantics Approach to Effective Language Behavior (Part 4) -- Inference-Observation Confusion: Distinguishing between Observation and Inference)" by Mary P. Lahman
• "Perspective: Some Thoughts on Current and Future Directions for GS" by Martin H. Levinson
• Probes:
  "Aristotle's Fourfold Causality, Tetralemma, and Emergence" by Ben Zhang and Bill Guschwan
• From the Vault:
  "The Narrow-Gauge, Broad-Band Medium" by Ben Bakdikian
  "The Ambiguity of Perception" by Gary Gumpert
• "Wading in the Shadows" by Barry Liss
• "Et Cetera" by Catherine Zickgraf
• "Surroundings" by Ross Jackson
• Plus News and Notes.

Cover Art

The cover of ETC 71:1 is from a painting by Nicole Wilson titled The Dreamer.

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