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by MperorM 2202 days ago
Why would that be incompatible with the map and territory model?

> The second also means that the way we experience the world depends on the kind of creatures we are, and not the way the world is.

Would it be fair to say we all look at both the map and territory wearing different sunglasses?

That seems to capture both sentiments, I feel there's something I'm not getting here.

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The map is actually about necessarily true properties that the territory is built on. That in any experience the features of the map exists in the territory.

The author argues instead not to be confused with the map because of potential deviation from the reality of the territory. But the map is about the categorical truths of reality which the territory is conforming to.

It’s what guarantees mathematics’ “unreasonable effectiveness”. Mathematical or scientific maps are discussing necessary properties of all human experience—-a type of knowledge called the a priori synthetic.