Science and Sanity by ALFRED KORZYBSKI

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We learned from anthropology that the degrees of socio-cultural developments of different civilizations depend on their capacity to produce higher and higher abstractions, which eventually culminate in a general consciousness of abstracting, the very key to further human evolution, and the thesis of this book. As Whitehead
justly said, ‘A civilization which cannot burst through its current abstractions is doomed to sterility after a very limited period of progress.’

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