The Map Is Not The Territory, The

Any Object Of Thought Is Both 'more Than What We Think, And Different'.

Whatever You Say It Is, Is Simply What You Say It Is.

Second Order Effects, Such As Belief In Belief, Makes Fanaticism.

As Words Are Not The Things We Speak About, And Structure Is The Only Link Between Them, Structure Becomes The Only Content Of Knowledge. If We Gamble On Verbal Structures That Have No Observable Empirical Structures, Such Gambling Can Never Give Us Any Structural Information About The World. Therefore Such Verbal Structures Are Structurally Obsolete, And If We Believe In Them, They Induce Delusions Or Other Semantic Disturbances.

The Map Is Not The Territory... The Only Usefulness Of A Map Depends On Similarity Of Structure Between The Empirical World And The Map.