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by cxr 953 days ago
That's called time-binding, and it actually predates Korzybski's coining "general semantics" in the 1930s. He wrote about it in his first book Manhood of Humanity, which is public domain[2].

1. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_binding>

2. <https://openlibrary.org/works/OL168124W/Manhood_of_humanity?...>