22 ordspråk av Alfred Korzybski
Alfred Korzybski
 …a few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called ‘critical philosophy’ and to the theory of knowledge or epistemology. This class of workers I call epistemologists to avoid the disagreeable implications of the term ‘philosopher’. |
| …the analogy between the noises we make when these noises do not symbolize anything which exists, and the worthless checks we write when our bank balance is zero… |
| "The map is not the territory. … The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map…" |
| God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't |
| If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures. |
| If the map shows a different structure from the territory represented -- for instance, shows the cities in a wrong order. . . . then the map is worse than useless, as it misinforms and leads astray. |
| If we consider that all we deal with represents constantly changing sub-microscopic, interrelated processes which are not, and cannot be ‘identical with themselves’, the old dictum that ‘everything is identical with itself’ becomes in [today’s understanding of the universe] a principle invariably false to facts. |
| If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone. |
| In the rough, a symbol is a sign that stands for something… Before a noise, etc., may become a symbol, something must exist for the symbol to symbolize. |
| 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. |
| It is now no mystery that some quite influential ‘philosophers’ were ‘mentally’ ill. |
| Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about; and (2) There is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation. |
| The affairs of man are conducted by our own, man-made rules and according to man-made theories. 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. |
| The map is not the territory. |
| The only usefulness of a map or a language depends on the similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map-languages. |
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