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Lady Welby

Significs and Language: The Articulate Form of Our Expressive and Interpretive Resources

• intuitionist logic
• Charles S. Peirce
• Cf. Charles S. Hardwick and J. Cook, ed. (1977) Semiotic and Significs: The Correspondence between Charles S. Peirce and Victoria Lady Welby
• Cf.
  The Welby 1911 Britannica discussion
• Cf.
  C. K. Ogden & I. A. Richards (1923)
  The Meaning of Meaning
• Cf. Alfred Korzybski (1933) Science and Sanity
• Cf. S. I. Hayakawa (1949) Language in Thought and Action
• Cf. Colin Cherry (1957) On Human Communication (See a quotation below)

On the Logic of Communication
(Syntactics, Semantics, and Pragmatics)
1. "SIGNIFICS" - OR MENTAL HYGIENE

The Honorable Lady Welby, who was Lady-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria, pioneered a movement, at the turn of the century, to tighten discipline of thought and expression in many fields of human interest, in education, in science, in all forms of mental activity, and to examine in the most critical manner concepts such as "meaning," "significance," "truth," "interpretation," and their bearing on what is commonly called the "value" or "import" of any branch of study and enquiry.^[1]

— Colin Cherry (1957) On Human Communication, pp. 219-220

H. G. Wells

The New Machiavelli

• ``the
  Webbs, as 'the Baileys', are unmercifully lampooned as short-sighted, bourgeois manipulators. The Fabian Society
  , of which Wells was briefly a member (1903-08), fares no better in his estimation.``