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this is interesting, but does one need to have an account of how exactly representation works in order to say "the map is not the territory" (i.e. particular representations can fail to be useful or accurate)?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%E2%80%93territory_relation#%22A_map_is_not_the_territory%22 … says the phrase "the map is not the territory" is due to Korzybski, paraphrasing E.T. Bell.
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I’ve read the Korzybski thing as part of the background work for this. Worth going back to the source to see [which is not always true]. It’s super lame. It’s not only simplistic, it’s also cringily crankish. [How do you spell “cringeyly”??]
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The problem is that the map metaphor is (deliberately?) misleading when taken as a prototype for representation in general. The ways that maps fail are dissimilar to, and much simpler than, the ways most other representations fail (when they do).
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oh? how does that work? a LITERAL map fails if it's missing a feature you care about, or if you can't figure out how to read it in time to get where you're going, or...i'm blanking on other reasons
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