Map & Territory
The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong
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A Non-Aristotelian System, Ooh I Like It Already Al
Korsiebski's paper was entitled a non-Aristotelian system, ooh I like it already Al. In the section relevant to our train of thought he asks us to embark upon a bit of a thought experiment. If we consider an actual territory, say Paris, Dresden, Warsaw, and build up a map in which the order of these cities would be represented as Dresden, Paris, Warsaw, to travel by such a map would be misguided, wasteful of effort. Later on he gets down to the point. A map is not the territory it represents, but if correct it has a similar structure to the territory which accounts for its usefulness. Or as the British statistic
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