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The Map is Not the Territory

Posted on November 27, 2019 by stufffromthestuff

I mentioned at the end of the last post that I hoped in this series on Knowing God to provide something of a map for the topic. While I hadn't been thinking in these terms when I wrote that, it helpfully reminded me of the saying of Alfred Korzybski, "The map is not the territory." … Continue reading The Map is Not the Territory

Posted in Knowing GodTagged Knowing God, language, maps, symbol, theology10 Comments

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