Rebutting Joseph T. Major's view of general semantics in Heinlein's Children. From: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics | Date: October 1, 2007| Author: Wright, David E. | COPYRIGHT 2007 Institute of General Semantics. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

JOSEPH T. MAJOR released his book Heinlein's Children in March of 2006. This book contains an updated collection of Major's essays on the so-called "juvenile" books of speculative fiction author, Robert A. Heinlein, published between the years of 1947 and 1963. In this book, Major draws certain conclusions about General Semantics, the study of language developed by Alfred Korzybski, and about Heinlein's view of philosophy based on this quotation from Space Cadet:

 
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