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?
I don't think people explicitly think the map is the territory, as a general abstract statement. But they sure act as though the map is the territory. Laurel / Yanny is (pretty much) an example. Korzybski became famous ramming this point home.
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Of course, thinking the map might well be the territory is often a good thing! AKA, making predictions in science. Famously, Einstein not taking his own theory, general relativity, seriously enough, and using it to predict the expanding universe.
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Funny, in mathematics the map and the territory are sorta the same thing.
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And in parts of theoretical physics - when you have a really good theory - they can be hard to tell apart. Lots of quantum computing theory has been theory for 30 years! Easy to mistake map for territory.
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