diff --git a/content/shard/difference.md b/content/shard/difference.md index c20f175..0582dfa 100644 --- a/content/shard/difference.md +++ b/content/shard/difference.md @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title = "Difference" glassblowers = ["cristobalsciutto.md"] +++ -![Korzybski](bib:6effd7fa-cac4-4766-b101-7fde5d274b9f) famously remarked that the "map is not the territory". The concepts that we use to describe the world, i.e. our representations, always leave something behind. The desire to encompass infinitude only leads to absurdities (cf. Borges' ![Exactitude in Science](bib:4fc38f51-a2fe-432e-9e93-2aea975631a2)). +Korzybski famously ![remarked](bib:6effd7fa-cac4-4766-b101-7fde5d274b9f) that the "map is not the territory". The concepts that we use to describe the world, i.e. our representations, always leave something behind. The desire to encompass infinitude only leads to absurdities (cf. Borges' ![Exactitude in Science](bib:4fc38f51-a2fe-432e-9e93-2aea975631a2)). > A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar > structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.