e-prime

रविवार, 01 मई 2011 13:47

In E-prime, you must remove all the "to be" derivates that are highlighted here.. exemple : "To be or not to be, that is the question" becomes "To exist or not to exist, I ask the question"..This interface helps writer to use e-prime for idea disambiguation.

D. David Bourland, Jr. (1928–2000) proposed E-Prime as an addition to  Alfred Korzybski's general semantics some years after Korzybski's death  in 1950. Bourland, who had studied under Korzybski, coined the term in a  1965 essay entitled A Linguistic Note: Writing in E-Prime (originally  published in the General Semantics Bulletin). The essay quickly  generated controversy within the general semantics field, partly because  practitioners of general semantics sometimes saw Bourland as attacking  the verb 'to be' as such, and not just certain usages. 
  
 Bourland collected and published three volumes of essays in support of  his innovation. The first (1991), co-edited by Paul Dennithorne Johnston  bore the title: To Be or Not: An E-Prime Anthology For the second, More  E-Prime: To Be or Not II: 1994, Concord, California: International  Society for General Semantics, he added a third editor, Jeremy Klein. 
  
 Bourland and Johnston edited a third book E-Prime III: a third  anthology: 1997, Concord, California: International Society for General  Semantics. 
  
 Korzybski (1879–1950) had determined that two forms of the verb 'to  be'—the 'is' of identity and the 'is' of predication—had structural  problems. For example, the sentence "The coat is red" has no observer,  the sentence "We see the coat as red" (where "we" indicates observers)  appears more specific in context as regards light waves and colour as  determined by modern science, that is, colour results from a reaction in  the human brain. 
  
 Korzybski pointed out the circularity of many dictionary definitions,  and suggested adoption of the convention, then recently introduced among  mathematicians, of acknowledging some minimal ensemble of terms as  necessarily 'undefined'; he chose 'structure', 'order', and 'relation'.  He wrote of those that they do not lend themselves to explication in  words, but only by exhibiting how to use them in sentences. Korzybski  advocated raising one's awareness of structural issues generally through  training in general semantics

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