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Between Quotes by Alfred Korzybski
- As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content of knowledge. If…
- The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map...
- It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble…
- If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic…
- The only usefulness of a map or a language depends on the similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map-languages.
- The analogy between the noises we make when these noises do not symbolize anything which exists, and the worthless checks we write when our bank…
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