the great thing about this is that Asimov's most famous sf is based on ludicrously half-baked notions that aggressively misrepresent intellectual knowledge in the fields he's discussing.https://twitter.com/matthewjdowd/status/1212699325018656768 …
Yeah I remember this being described as an application of general semantics, though I could be wrong
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if it was I probably would have missed the reference because I didn't know about General Semantics when I read it, but I thought I remembered it being described as "symbolic logic" (while being nothing like actual symbolic logic)
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(I think Heinlein had a similar misconception of formal logic as something that could be used to get to the Real Truth of complex texts)
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Yeah Heinlein was the one who was a huge general semantics disciple
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