Alfred Korzybski

Or as Alfred Korzybski, the father of general semantics, said: "A map is not the territory it represents."

Dr. Judith Rich: Are You Planning Your Life or Living It? 2010

Or as Alfred Korzybski, the father of general semantics, said: "A map is not the territory it represents."

Dr. Judith Rich: Are You Planning Your Life or Living It? 2010

As Alfred Korzybski pointed out eighty years ago, "The map is not the territory."

Gangaji: What Is In Your Name? 2009

“The map,” said Alfred Korzybski, the father of general semantics, “is not the territory.”

Talkin’ ‘Bout My Generalization 2007

And to throw another log on the fire for you regarding point #6, map and territory, the work of the general semanticist Alfred Korzybski has been popularized by Neil Postman and S.I. Hayakawa, also Wendell Johnson, who is less well-known, I think, and they've used the map-territory metaphor extensively in their writing.

philosophical principles Bill Kerr 2007

He was in New York to give The Institute of General Semantics's "Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture" that night at the Harvard Club, but his hotel was in New Jersey for some reason.

Boing Boing Richard Metzger 2012

(That was the message of the general semanticist Alfred Korzybski, famous for "a map is not the territory.")

Homeland Security Watch 2009

Or as Alfred Korzybski said, "The map is not the territory".

ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds 2009

My answer to this question comes from the so-called "General Semantics" approach, first introduced by Alfred Korzybski in his "Science and Sanity, an Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics" in 1948.

MSDN Blogs Daniel Kornev [MSFT] 2009

The popularity of these kinds of viewpoint doesn't change the fact that these models are still only representations - as Alfred Korzybski noted, "the map is not the territory".

Only a Game 2009