What Alfred Korzybski thinks about language learning
Polish-American scholar (1879 to 1950) who founded general semantics; author of Science and Sanity (1933), where he wrote that a map is not the territory it represents; founded the Institute of General Semantics in 1938.
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1 dated position, c. 1933, in their own words. Our reading of what Alfred Korzybski has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsIf we reflect upon our languages, we find that at best they must be considered only as maps. A word is not the object it represents
↗The Map Is Not the Territory (Institute of General Semantics, quoting Korzybski, 1933, and Bateson, 1970)generalsemantics.org 3rd of 3 in this piece