Editing General semantics (section)

=== Early attempts at validation ===
The First American Congress for General Semantics convened in March 1935 at the Central Washington College of Education in [[Ellensburg, Washington]]. In introductory remarks to the participants, Korzybski said: <blockquote>General semantics formulates a new experimental branch of natural science, underlying an empirical theory of human evaluations and orientations and involving a definite neurological mechanism, present in all humans. It discovers direct neurological methods for the stimulation of the activities of the human cerebral cortex and the direct introduction of beneficial neurological 'inhibition'....<ref>Korzybski, Alfred. "An Outline of General Semantics". In ''Papers from the First American Congress for General Semantics'', collected and arranged by Hansell Baugh (1938). New York: Arrow Editions. p. 1.</ref></blockquote> He added that general semantics "will be judged by experimentation".<ref>Korzybski, Alfred. "An Outline of General Semantics". In ''Papers from the First American Congress for General Semantics''. p. 4.</ref> One paper presented at the congress reported dramatic score improvements for college sophomores on standardized intelligence tests after six weeks of training by methods prescribed in Chapter 29 of ''Science and Sanity.''<ref>Trainor, Joseph C. "Experimental Results of Training in General Semantics upon Intelligence Test Scores". In ''Papers from the First American Congress for General Semantics'', pp. 58–62.</ref>