Lead by Alfred Korzybski others have continued to develop the theories and practice of General Semantics over the years.

I have included below a brief list of the members of the general semantics community:

• Alfred Korzybski (see panel)
• Martin H. Levinson and Katherine Liepe-Levinson
• Bruce I. Kodish and Presby Kodish
• Harry Weinberg
• E. W. Kellogg III
• Kenneth G. Johnson

Alfred Korzybski

The developer of the theory of General Semantics.

Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski (July 3, 1879 – March 1, 1950) was a Polish-American philosopher and scientist. He is remembered for developing the theory of general semantics. Korzybski's work argued that human knowledge of the world is limited both by the human nervous system and by the structure of language.

Korzybski thought that people do not have access to direct knowledge of reality; rather they have access to perceptions and to a set of beliefs which human society has confused with direct knowledge of reality. Korzybski is remembered as the author of the dictum: "The map is not the territory".

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