7 quotes
The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map.
Science and Sanity (1933)
The map is not the territory … The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map.
Science and Sanity (1933)
"Say whatever you choose about the object, and whatever you might say is not it." Or, in other wordsː "Whatever you might say the object "is", well it is not." This negative statement is final, because it is negative.
Science and Sanity (1933)
Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols.... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols, rule us.
Science and Sanity (1933)
The word is not the object.
Science and Sanity (1933)
The main thesis of this Ā-system is that as yet we all (with extremely few exceptions) copy animals in our nervous processes, and that practically all human difficulties, 'mental ills' of all degrees included, have this characteristic as a component.
Science and Sanity (1933)
A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness. If the map could be ideally correct, it would include, in a reduced scale, the map of the map ; the map of the map, of the map; and so on, endlessly, a fact first noticed by Royce.
Science and Sanity (1933)