{"id":14,"date":"2008-09-10T10:03:55","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T10:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/?p=14"},"modified":"2009-01-11T22:43:17","modified_gmt":"2009-01-11T22:43:17","slug":"korzybski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/2008\/09\/korzybski\/","title":{"rendered":"The map is not the territory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Korzybski&#8217;s dictum (<em>&#8220;The map is not the territory&#8221;<\/em>) is also cited as an <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Principles of NLP\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Principles_of_NLP\">underlying principle<\/a> used in <a title=\"Neuro-linguistic programming\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neuro-linguistic_programming\">neuro-linguistic programming<\/a>, where it is used to signify that <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">individual people in fact do not in general have access to absolute knowledge of reality, but in fact only have access to a set of beliefs they have built up over time,<\/span> about reality. So it is considered important to be aware that <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">people&#8217;s beliefs about reality and their awareness of things <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">(the &#8220;map&#8221;)<\/span> are not reality itself or everything they could be aware of <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">(&#8220;the territory&#8221;)<\/span><\/span>. The originators of <a title=\"Neuro-linguistic programming\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neuro-linguistic_programming\">NLP<\/a> have been explicit that they owe this insight to <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"General Semantics\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/General_Semantics\">General Semantics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Map-territory_relation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Korzybski&#8217;s dictum (&#8220;The map is not the territory&#8221;) is also cited as an underlying principle used in neuro-linguistic programming, where it is used to signify that individual people in fact do not in general have access to absolute knowledge of reality, but in fact only have access to a set of beliefs they have built [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-map-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}