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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.
The only usefulness of map or a language depends on the similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map-languages.”
The only usefulness of map or a language depends on the similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map-languages.”
— Alfred Korzybski, Polish-American philosopher and scientist. He is remembered most for developing the theory of general semantics (1879-1950), Science & Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics, Institute of GS, 1994, p.61. See also: Map–territory relation - a brief résumé
