Thank you for this response. This has removed a confusion I’ve had since I’ve come to the site.
You say in the article:
Sometimes it still amazes me to contemplate that this proverb was invented at some point, and some fellow named Korzybski invented it,
At least in my recollection, you refer to AK as the inventor of “The Map is not the Territory” when you bring it up, and that always gave me the impression that you had read him. But then I would be puzzled because many of the other things he said were appropriate to the conversation, and you wouldn’t bring up those at all. And you didn’t even mention Hayakawa in the article.
When someone mentions an author as the originator of an idea they’re talking about, I assume he has read them, and bring that context to a reading of what they have written in turn. It would have been helpful to me if you had identified Hayakawa and Langauge in Thought in Action as where you had been exposed to the idea, distinguishing that from where Hayakawa had gotten the idea—AK. Maybe there aren’t a lot of people who have actually read AK, but I think it would be a good general practice to make your sources clear to your readers.
Thank you for this response. This has removed a confusion I’ve had since I’ve come to the site.
You say in the article:
At least in my recollection, you refer to AK as the inventor of “The Map is not the Territory” when you bring it up, and that always gave me the impression that you had read him. But then I would be puzzled because many of the other things he said were appropriate to the conversation, and you wouldn’t bring up those at all. And you didn’t even mention Hayakawa in the article.
When someone mentions an author as the originator of an idea they’re talking about, I assume he has read them, and bring that context to a reading of what they have written in turn. It would have been helpful to me if you had identified Hayakawa and Langauge in Thought in Action as where you had been exposed to the idea, distinguishing that from where Hayakawa had gotten the idea—AK. Maybe there aren’t a lot of people who have actually read AK, but I think it would be a good general practice to make your sources clear to your readers.