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God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.
If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.
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.
There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.
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.
Whatever you say it is, it isn't.

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Alfred Korzybski
Profession
Scientist
BirthDate
03 July, 1879
DeathDate
01 March, 1950
Country
Poland
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