DWA; **"Martin Gardner seems to suggest that proponents of general semantics violate their own rules about withholding judgement, following the scientific method, and replacing dogmatic belief with various degrees of probability. Gardner also wrote of Korzybski that he "never tired of knocking over 'Aristotelian' habits of thought, in spite of the fact that what he called Aristotelian was a straw structure which bore almost no resemblance to the Greek philosopher's manner of thinking.""**

Martin Gardner's "opinion" is just that. An opinion. Also, and maybe foremost one wants to remember that no matter how salient a persons message may be there will ALWAYS be a distracter.

After 2000 years of Aristotelian semantics along comes Korsybski to upset the cart!

Korsybski's contribution to semantics is like Einstein's contribution to physics. He stood the establishment on it's ears! And make note you do not do this without making waves!