Instead of speaking about identity, Korzybski advocates speaking about relations.
You can say “New York is bigger than Austin” without asking whether or not Austin is a big or small city and New York is a big or small city. If you have a good map, whether or not “New York is bigger than Austin” holds on the map corresponds to whether it holds for the territory.
That example is trivial and I doubt it’s very insightful on its own. Science and Sanity is a very complex book.
Instead of speaking about identity, Korzybski advocates speaking about relations.
You can say “New York is bigger than Austin” without asking whether or not Austin is a big or small city and New York is a big or small city. If you have a good map, whether or not “New York is bigger than Austin” holds on the map corresponds to whether it holds for the territory.
That example is trivial and I doubt it’s very insightful on its own. Science and Sanity is a very complex book.