PREFACE TO THINKING & LIVING SKILLS: GENERAL SEMANTICS FOR CRITICAL THINKING^sub 1995^

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GS author and Assistant Editor of this journal, Gregory Sawin died on Friday, March 12, 2004. Sawin had a powerful vision of how we can use the formulations of general semantics to improve our lives, which he shared in his many ETC articles and in his 1995 book Thinking & Living Skills: General Semantics for Critical Thinking.

ON THE EVENING of January 28, 1980, my friend, Greg B. Phillips, arrived at my house for his regular weekly visit. During our conversation, he made a casual offer that triggered a chain of events destined to change my life. he merely suggested that I might like to ...

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