InFuture PathwaysbyOmar Fink·Apr 14, 2024Semantic Disturbances“The map is not the territory, the word is not the thing it describes. Whenever the map is confused with the territory, a ‘semantic…
Roni Bandini·Sep 4, 2023La máquina de caminar mapasEl ingeniero y filósofo Alfred Korzybski dijo una vez que el mapa no es el territorio y esta afirmación tan útil para evitar falacias…
Rufty·Feb 18, 2023Why your Russian classmates learn ASL faster than you.To assert that some languages convey some ideas better than others may be unpopular, but it shouldn’t be controversial: the General…
Nick Williams·Feb 10, 2023The Great Ineffable TerrorThe bottom line is that all we care about is continuity — the continuity of what doesn’t matter in the least, just as long as there is…
Kate·May 16, 2019A map is not the territoryKorzybski (and what followed, e.g., Sapir-Whorf hypothesis) was very focused on the language and its relation to the perception of reality…