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If anyone is interested in this, they should look into Alfred Korzybski and general semantics. He invented the term "The map is not the territory", in case you want an idea of who he is.

IIRC, he at one point says in his book, "Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics" something along the lines that the mistakes most people make are in categorization. Something along the lines of "Some things look the same but they are different, and some things look different but they are the same". It's a very interesting book and I loved how Non-Aristotelian logic was used in Null-A by A.E. van Vogt, which introduced it to me.