Every language having a structure, by the very nature of language, reflects in its own structure that of … - Alfred Korzybski

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I don't like the word "villain. " It's too reductive. Calling someone a villain makes it too easy to ignore all the factors that went into someone making the choices they do.

Alfred Korzybski

Every language having a structure, by the very nature of language, reflects in its own structure that of the world as assumed by those who evolved the language. In other words, we read unconsciously into the world the structure of the language we use.

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It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble in a finite period should exhibit one mechanism, the semantic mechanism of identification - the discovery of which makes universal agreement possible, in mathematics and in life.

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I want to make clear only that words are not the things spoken about, and that there is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.

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Identity is invariably false to facts.

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It is a fallacy of the old schools to divide man into parcels, elements, thoughts, emotions, intuitions, etc. All human faculties consist of an interconnected whole.

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Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.

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