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Mathematics and logic have been proved to be one a fact from which it seems to follow that mathematics may successfully deal with non-quantitative problems in a much broader sense than was suspected to be possible.
Alfred Korzybski
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Alfred Korzybski
Age: 70 †
Born: 1879
Born: July 3
Died: 1950
Died: March 1
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Warszawa
Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski
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I am the same kind of moron as the rest of you, it's the method that does the work, for me as well as for you.
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It seems evident that everything which exists in nature, is natural, no matter how simple or complicated a phenomenon it is and on no occasion can the so-called 'supernatural' be anything else than a completely natural law, though it may, at the moment, be above and beyond the present understanding.
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Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.
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To use words to sense reality is like going with a lamp to search for darkness.
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Whatever you say it is, is simply what YOU SAY it is.
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Who rules our symbols, rules us.
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It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble in a finite period should exhibit one mechanism, the semantic mechanism of identification - the discovery of which makes universal agreement possible, in mathematics and in life.
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Identity is invariably false to facts.
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The map is not the territory.
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I want to make clear only that words are not the things spoken about, and that there is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.
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What we call progress consists in coordinating ideas with realities.
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I think therefore I seem to be.
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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.
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The objective level is not words, and cannot be reached by words alone. We must point our finger and be silent, or we will never reach this level.
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Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.
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Second order effects, such as belief in belief, makes fanaticism.
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It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.
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The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises namely, the complete denial of 'identity.'
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Words don't mean, people mean.
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Psycho-galvonic experiments show clearly that every emotion or thought is always connected with some electrical current.
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