E-Prime – Setemheb

The Elusive Obvious: The Hazards of “Is”

When looking into human stress responses, I learned about one of the odder side effects of the Gift of Set several years ago. Unlike nearly every other animal on the planet, which only experiences stress under conditions of actual threat, humans can be stressed chronically. The root of this comes from one of the criticalContinue reading “The Elusive Obvious: The Hazards of “Is””

Distinguishing Subjective and Objective

E-PRIME, abolishing all forms of the verb “to be” has its roots in the field4 of general semantics, as presented by Alfred Korzybski in his 1933 book,Science and Sanity. Korzybski pointed out the pitfalls associated with, andproduced by, two usages of “to be”: identity and predication. His student. DDavid Bourland, Jr., observed that even linguisticallyContinue reading “Distinguishing Subjective and Objective”