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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(This is consistent with your motte-and-bailey analogy: there are more and less subtle interpretations maybe)
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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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Hmm. Maybe I *am* just saying that the map isn’t the territory! (Pretty sure not… partly because the main point of the book is explaining how to come up with new types of maps… but it’s worth considering further the possibliity that I’m reinventing a wheel!)
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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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