Sharing knowledge. It's what we do...........

If you followed the link on the previous post, you may remember that Ayn Rand wrote of C. S. Lewis, in a disparaging tone, "Here’s  where the Kor­zybski comes out in him."  Not having a clue who Korzybski was, or, how to take what was surely intended as an insult, the Oracle Google was consulted.  To save you from having to follow the link:

Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski ([kɔˈʐɨpski]; July 3, 1879 – March 1, 1950) was a Polish-American philosopher and scientist. He is remembered for developing the theory of general semantics. Korzybski's work argued that human knowledge of the world is limited both by the human nervous system and by the structure of language.

Korzybski thought that people do not have access to direct knowledge of reality; rather they have access to perceptions and to a set of beliefs which human society has confused with direct knowledge of reality. Korzybski is remembered as the author of the dictum: "The map is not the territory".

I'm glad we cleared that all up.