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Let Us Repeat The Two Crucial Negative Premises As Established Firmly By All Human Experience: (1) Words Are Not The Things We Are Speaking About; And (2) There Is No Such Thing As An Object In Absolute Isolation.

-Alfred Korzybski

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Let Us Repeat The Two Crucial Negative

Alfred Korzybski

Let Us Repeat The Two Crucial Negative Premises As Established Firmly By All Human Experience: (1) Words Are Not The Things We Are Speaking About; And (2) There Is No Such Thing As An Object In Absolute Isolation.

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