Is there a term for the thing when you have a complex problem (social issues, economics), switch to a metaphor, solve the metaphor, and then see if the solved metaphor maps as a solution back onto the problem?
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The metaphor is not the territory … The only usefulness of a metaphor depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the metaphor... - Misquoting Korzybski .. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alfred_Korzybski …
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it's not a misquote. metaphors are maps.
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