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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And here’s some more. After writing this, I felt like it was all obvious and I wasn’t saying anything much. Maybe this isn’t obvious to everyone? If not, is this a good way of talking about it?pic.twitter.com/7xTzWVrbYE
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Hm, somewhat obvious, but the uhh... mapping from literal maps & territories to the more general case maybe less so. eg "overarching universal ontology, combining all possible categorizations" seems like sthg I might have vaguely thought was possible before reading Meaningness
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Ya. Hard to communicate that feeling until you have it hah
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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