general semantics

an early attempt in the philosophy of language to establish the relationship between words and referents on a scientific basis. It proved influential in a number of disciplines in the 1930s and 1940s. See semantics; semiotics. [introduced by Polish-born U.S. philosopher and scientist Alfred Korzybski (1879–1950) in his Science and Sanity (1933)]

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high chromaticity

see color purity.