We see what we see because we miss all the finer details.
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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 balance is zero.Alfred Korzybski
Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. 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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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 world is found in structure, and structure alone.
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The map is not the territory. The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map
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The affairs of man are conducted by our own, man-made rules and according to man-made theories. Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols.... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols, rule us.
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