[Ads-l] 'when the map doesn ’t match the terrain, go with the terrain’.

[Laurence Horn]

Nice; I hadn't heard this one.  The opposite sentiment is voiced in a proverb popular in the halls of MIT when I was hanging around there (not, I think, intended seriously, but who really knows?): Facts are cheap, theories are sacred.

LH

> On Apr 1, 2016, at 8:37 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I just read this in an article about the struggles in the Permian oil basin
> in Texas.
> 
> The concept is attributed to Polish philosopher Alfred Korzybski, who said,
> "the map is not the territory" on 1931. He credits the mathematician Eric
> Temple Bell, but his earliest cite is 1933.
> 
> I was wondering whether the map and terrain comparison has ever been traced.
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