Alfred Korzybski
Person on 2 sites
Polish-American scholar (1879 to 1950) who founded general semantics; author of Science and Sanity (1933), where he wrote that a map is not the territory it…
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ppll (opens ppll.app)
Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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2 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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A map is not the territory it represents, but if it is correct it shares the territory's structure, which is what makes it useful. (opens korrents.com)
“A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.”
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Languages are at best maps: a word is not the object it represents. (opens korrents.com)
“If we reflect upon our languages, we find that at best they must be considered only as maps. A word is not the object it represents”
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A map is not the territory it represents, but if it is correct it shares the territory's structure, which is what makes it useful. (opens korrents.com)