Editing Alfred Korzybski (section)

== Influence ==
Korzybski's work had a positive reception from a variety of persons in the 1940s and 1950s.<ref>{{cite web|title=Notable Individuals Influenced by General Semantics|url=http://www.generalsemantics.org/the-general-semantics-learning-center/overview-of-general-semantics/notable-individuals/|publisher=The Institute of General Semantics|access-date=September 3, 2012|archive-date=March 19, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140319195937/http://www.generalsemantics.org/the-general-semantics-learning-center/overview-of-general-semantics/notable-individuals/|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Robert A. Heinlein]] named a character after him in his 1940 short story "[[Blowups Happen]]". The science fiction writer [[A. E. van Vogt]] based his novel ''[[The World of Null-A]]'', published in 1948, on ideas from General Semantics.   On March 8, 1949,  fellow science-fiction author [[L. Ron Hubbard]] wrote to Heinlein referencing Korzybski as an influence on what would become [[Dianetics]]:
 
{{Blockquote|Well, you didn't specify in your book  what actual reformation took place in the society to make supermen. Got to thinking about it other day. The system is [[Excalibur (L. Ron Hubbard)|Excalibur]]. It makes [[The World of Null-A|nul A's]].<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://tonyortega.org/2014/11/08/the-heinlein-letters-what-l-ron-hubbards-close-friends-really-thought-of-him/ | title=The Heinlein Letters: What L. Ron Hubbard's close friends really thought of him &#124; the Underground Bunker }}</ref> }}

Korzybski's ideas influenced philosopher [[Alan Watts]] and physicist [[Fritjof Capra]] who used his phrase "the map is not the territory" in lectures and writings [https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25151915M/The_tao_of_physics "The Tao of Physics", 35th Anniversary Edition]. Writer [[Robert Anton Wilson]] was also deeply influenced by Korzybski's ideas.

The third edition of ''Science and Sanity'' states that in [[World War II]] the [[United States Army]] used Korzybski's system to treat [[Combat stress reaction|battle fatigue]] in Europe, under the supervision of Dr. [[Douglas Kelley|Douglas M. Kelley]],<ref>{{cite book | last=Korzybski | first=Alfred | title=Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics | edition=6 | year=2023 | orig-year=1933 | page=liii | publisher=Institute of General Semantics | isbn=9781970164220}}</ref> who went on to become the psychiatrist in charge of the Nazi war criminals at [[Nuremberg trials|Nuremberg]].

Some of the General Semantics tradition was continued by [[Samuel I. Hayakawa]].