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03/07/1879 Polish-American philosopher Alfred Korzybski is born

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Alfred Korzybski - The World Is NOT an Illusion

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The Non-allness Theory by Alfred Korzybski

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The map is not the territory

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Alfred Korzybski - Historical Note on the Structural Differential

He pioneered the general semantics, a linguistic philosophy that attempts to increase humanity's capacity to transmit ideas from generation to generation (what Korzybski called man's "time-binding capacity") through the study of human use of the language. His best-known thought is "The map is not the territory."