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    Alfred Korzybski

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    The map is not the territory. ↗


    — Alfred Korzybski

    #metaphysics #philosophy #metaphysics

    There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. ↗


    — Alfred Korzybski

    #life

    The objective level is not words, and cannot be reached by words alone. We must point our finger and be silent, or we will never reach this level. ↗


    — Alfred Korzybski

    #science

    Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words. ↗


    — Alfred Korzybski

    #human #lies #noises #obvious #origins

    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. ↗


    — Alfred Korzybski

    #characteristics #correct #important #map #maps

    God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't. ↗


    — Alfred Korzybski

    #god #may #nervous #nervous system #sins

    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. ↗


    — Alfred Korzybski

    #alone #between #found #linguistic #link

    If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures. ↗


    — Alfred Korzybski

    #disclosures #inquiry #made #mankind #our

    There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. ↗


    — Alfred Korzybski

    #both #doubt #easily #everything #life

    Whatever you say it is, it isn't. ↗


    — Alfred Korzybski

    #whatever #you






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    Korzybski was born in Warsaw Poland which at that time was part of the Russian Empire. Hayakawa (later to become a Republican member of the U. Korzybski was educated at the Warsaw University of Technology in engineering.

    Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski ([kɔˈʐɨpski]) (July 3 1879 – March 1 1950) was a Polish-American philosopher and scientist. Korzybski's work argued that human knowledge of the world is limited both by the human nervous system and by the structure of language. He is remembered for developing the theory of general semantics.

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