Semantics Quotes (2)
'Say whatever you choose about the object, and whatever you might say is not it.' Or, in other words: 'Whatever you might say the object "is", well, it is not.
Korzybski's controversial formulation of 'Non-identity' in his Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics/i> (1958), 35, and comment in Preface, xviii.
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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. ... If we reflect upon our languages, we find at best they must be considered only as maps.
Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics (1958), 58.
See also: | Characteristic (16) | Language (39) | Map (6) | Represent (2) | Structure (37) | Territory (2)
