Alfred Korzybski, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alfred Korzybski

Polish scientist and philosopher

Date of Birth: 03-Jul-1879

Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 01-Mar-1950

Profession: engineer, mathematician, philosopher, linguist

Nationality: United States, Poland

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski (, Polish: ['alfr?t k?'??psk?i]; July 3, 1879 – March 1, 1950) was a Polish-American independent scholar who developed a field called general semantics, which he viewed as both distinct from, and more encompassing than, the field of semantics.
He argued that human knowledge of the world is limited both by the human nervous system and the languages humans have developed, and thus no one can have direct access to reality, given that the most we can know is that which is filtered through the brain's responses to reality.
His best known dictum is "The map is not the territory".