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How to step off your map: a view from Edinburgh’s Old Town
Walking around the Old Town of Edinburgh is a powerful reminder of the limitations of maps. There’s no way that any map can do justice to the criss-crossing streets, the rabbit’s warren of narrow closes, the dizzying effect as you … Continue reading
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The map is not the territory
“The map is not the territory” is one of the presuppositions of NLP. The words we use are not the event or the item they represent. Although the words we use to describe an event are chosen to represent it, … Continue reading