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The Map Is Not The Territory... The Only Usefulness Of A Map Depends On Similarity Of Structure Between The Empirical World And The Map.
-Alfred Korzybski
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The Map Is Not The
Alfred Korzybski
The Map Is Not The Territory... The Only Usefulness Of A Map Depends On Similarity Of Structure Between The Empirical World And The Map.
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