Quote of the Day – November 1 2011

“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.”
–Alfred Korzybski

If I was to take Dr Korzybski at his word in this, then I would see that we can never say what something is or describe it fully. The most we can do would be to describe what it looks like or how it feels. That means that everything when described by words becomes reduced to metaphor. That explains so much. After all as I continue to find more and more, that something may be as it has been described to me but almost always it contains so much more. This applies in so many ways particularly when it comes to people. Whenever someone’s characteristics have been described to me, I always find myself saying, “yes but they contain so much more than that.” It becomes to easy to limit others with a few words of choice description. As a matter of fact quite often politicians rely on this fact.
— G A Rosenberg

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Bouquet by G A Rosenberg

Random Ducked by G A Rosenberg