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ONE DAY, a close friend of mine began speaking of general semantics, a discipline with which I was not acquainted. The arguments of its proponents sounded very familiar to me, even though I hadn't heard them expressed in quite that way before. "The map is not the territory." Yes, yes, quite true. "The word is not the thing." Yes, true again. "Language depicts the world as static, but this depiction is an illusion." Yes, indeed this is the case. I wondered if any of these people had heard of rhetoric or rhetorical theory. I wondered if any of them had read Aristotle.
Apparently, some of them had read Aristotle. In fact, Alfred Korzybski, one of their most prominent theorists, had created an ...
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