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“ Philosophy in its old form could exist only in the absence of engineering, but with engineering in existence and daily more active and far reaching, the old verbalistic philosophy and metaphysics have lost their reason to exist. They were no more able to understand the production of the universe and life than they are now able to understand or grapple with production as a means to provide a happier existence for humanity. They failed because their venerated method of speculation can not produce, and its place must be taken by mathematical thinking. Mathematical reasoning is displacing metaphysical reasoning. Engineering is driving verbalistic philosophy out of existence and humanity gains decidedly thereby. Only a few parasites and speculators will mourn the disappearance of their old companion speculation. The world of producers -the predominating majority of human beings- will welcome a philosophy of ordered thought and production. ”

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The map is not the territory.

~ Alfred Korzybski

We humans, through old habits, and because of the inherent structure of human knowledge have a tendency to make static, definite, and, in a way, absolutistic one-valued statements. But when we fight absolutism, we quite often establish, instead, some other dogma equally silly and harmful. For instance, an active atheist is psycho-logically as unsound as a rabid theist.

~ Alfred Korzybski

Indeed neither life nor science bothers about essences-they leave essences to metaphysics, which is neither life nor science.

~ Alfred Korzybski

Those ignorant masters of our destinies who regard humans as animals or as monstrous hybrids of natural and supernatural must be dethroned by scientific education.Humans can be literally poisoned by false ideas and false teachings. Many people have a just horror at the thought of putting poison into tea or coffee, but seem unable to realize that, when they teach false ideas and false doctrines, they are poisoning the time-binding capacity of their fellow men and women. One has to stop and think!

~ Alfred Korzybski