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Re: What Exists? No, Really.
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Originally Posted by arkain101
...Just like the billiard ball, when all else (the map) is removed from the mind, and the mind is all that remains, what does it have access to in order generate reasoning?....
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According to Korzybski, there would be nothing left. No map and no mind.
Here's an analogy: I have a drawing done in black ink on white paper. The black ink defines the foreground, a beautiful picture of butterflies and castles -- the white defines the background.
Now... Remove the foreground, leaving only the background. What do you have?
Answer: nothing. You have neither foreground nor background. The one cannot exist without the other.
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Epictetus, Greek Philosopher
The map is NOT the territory.
Korzybski, Polish-American Philosopher
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