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E-PRIME, abolishing all forms of the verb “to be,” has its roots in the field of general semantics, as presented by Alfred Korzybski in his 1933 book, Science and Sanity.

And:

…one can indeed write and speak without using any form of “to be,” calling this subset of the English language “E-Prime.”
— Read on rebtinfo.com/toward-understanding-e-prime/

And:

The “B”-type statements (E-Prime) recast these sentences into a form isomorphic to modern science by first abolishing the “is” of Aristotelian essence and then reformulating each observation in terms of signals received and interpreted by a body (or instrument) moving in space-time.

I suppose the purpose of this language modification is to change the way we think, so that we can be more flexible?