Re: something i found interesting...
| From: | Jonathan Chang <zhang2323@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, September 3, 2000, 0:47 |
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In a message dated 2000:09:02 5:43:44 PM, artabanos@MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU writes:
>Indeed. Zhuangzi, 2400 years before Saussure, said (I paraphrase): >"You
point at the moon with your finger, but you don't confuse your >finger for
the moon."
>That is, the world is not just the system by which we categorize and
>encapsulate the things we see around us.
and ... "The map is not the territory."
czHANg
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