The Map is not the Territory
Cover of The World of Null-A, by A. E. van Vogt. 1st edition cover, via Wikipedia.org A truism does not a scientific discipline make. I last mentioned A. E. van Vogt’s Null-A novels a long time ago, noting the phrase “the map is not the territory”, which is a key concept of the Null-A universe. The phrase is actually a quote from Alfred Korzybski, in his book Science and Sanity, which formed the foundation for the school of thought known as General Semantics. Described by its
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