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To: betty boop

Very good.

“the map is not the territory” - Alfred Korzybski


50 posted on 01/02/2011 9:05:42 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: 1010RD; wmfights; A_perfect_lady; Alamo-Girl; xzins; YHAOS; r9etb; spirited irish
“the map is not the territory” - Alfred Korzybski

Indeed, 1010RD. This point cannot be stressed enough, IMHO. For it seems a great many people today, atheists and others in the grip of "scientistic" modes of thinking, are living by the "map," and not in the "territory" — which is the Reality in which individuals exist as "parts and participants".

Cicero called this mode of being aspernatio rationis, the rejection of, or contempt for, Reason. He diagnosed this rejection as a symptom of mental/spiritual disorder (read: pneumopathological disease)....

This disease seems to be endemic in our time.

Thank you so much for writing!

68 posted on 01/04/2011 8:27:24 AM PST by betty boop (Seek truth and beauty together; you will never find them apart. — F. M. Cornford)
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