Common dismissal: “Aren’t you just saying that ‘the map is not the territory’?” Attempting to clarify, I find myself baffled. Who ever thought the map WAS the territory? (No one.) What work was denying this supposed to do?
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I made some serious M-T errors when I went canoeing in Canadian wilderness with a map from the 70s
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Yeah, so did
@sarahdoingthing and me while skiing a couple months agohttps://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/975808191979126784 …
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I mean, Korzybski would claim that saying "this is a chair" is a M-T error, because "is" is busted. And people DO get in (usually useless) debates about whether some particular X "is" a Y. They wouldn't do this if they weren't making this M-T error.
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Rationalists get around this using the tool "operationalize". So the debate needs to become about a real question: "does it look like a chair to me?" "can I sit comfortably on it?" "do >70% of strangers call it a chair?" or simply "do I choose to call this a chair?"
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(This is consistent with your motte-and-bailey analogy: there are more and less subtle interpretations maybe)
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The Worst Argument In The World is an M-T error that never stops being made
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Just the other day I felt some light pain in my throat and tried to prevent a sore throat by somehow pushing against the sensation, until I asked myself what hell I was doing. However well I understand TMINTT theoretically, it's still somewhere in my implicit models.
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Which is to say some truths need to be reencountered even after they have been accepted.
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