There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
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If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.Alfred Korzybski
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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Whatever you say it is, it isn't.
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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 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.
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