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From The Nature of Literature, 1942 by Thomas Clark Pollock

To say that a sign "has" meaning for an individual is thus simply a verbal short-cut for the statement that the individual is conditioned to respond to or with the sign. A useful term with which to indicate this process is semantic reaction, used by Korzybski in Science and Sanity.²⁴ The term semantic, derived from semantikos, "significant," from semainein, "to signify," "to mean," was introduced in Breal's pioneering Essai de Semantique. A semantic reaction is the conditional response of a human being to or with verbal signs.

    ²⁴ See especially . . . pp. 19-34.

THE NATURE OF LITERATURE
Its Relation to Science, Language and Human Experience
Princeton University Press 1942, p. 39.