What Alfred Korzybski thinks about mental models

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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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   Our readingA map is not the territory it represents, but if it is correct it shares the territory's structure, which is what makes it useful.

   Their wordsA map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.

   ↗The Map Is Not the Territory (Institute of General Semantics, quoting Korzybski, 1933, and Bateson, 1970)generalsemantics.org 2nd of 3 in this piece