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

[Dan Goncharoff]

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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