Science and Sanity

Korzybski, A. (1933). Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics. International Non-Aristotelian Library Publishing.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Textbook

Year

1933

Link

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL22136866M/Science_and_sanity

Cited by

6 citations across 6 artifacts.

Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.

Mechanisms

• Claim Tagging Matrix
  • A neat table of tags can lend false authority to claims that are still weak — the map is not the territory
• Conflict Matrix
  • Its central trap is that it is a map, not the territory
• Permeability or Impedance Heatmap
  • Its failure mode is reification — mistaking the map for the territory.

    This sourceWarns that a representation or map is not the territory it represents.

• Process Map
  • Its central failure mode is that the map is not the territory

    This sourceStates that a representation is not the territory it represents and cannot contain all of that territory.

• Sketch Map Index
  • Its failure mode is over-trusting the drawing: the map is not the territory, and a clean sketch can lull the learner into believing recall is secured when the index was never actually internalized and tested unaided.

    This sourceStates that a map is not the territory it represents.

• Tension-Curve Storyboard
  • Its central failure mode is the map–territory error: the storyboard is a model of how tension should land, not evidence of how it will, and a beautiful board can conceal an arc no real audience feels the way the plan assumes.

    This sourceEstablishes the map-territory distinction: a representation is not evidence that reality will match its planned structure.

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Links previously used in the corpus

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