humans, old habits, inherent structure human knowledge a tendency make — Alfred Korzybski, Science Sanity: Introduction Non-Aristotelian Systems General Semantics

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We humans, through old habits, and because of the inherent structure of human knowledge have a tendency to make static, definite, and, in a way, absolutistic one-valued statements. But when we fight absolutism, we quite often establish, instead, some other dogma equally silly and harmful. For instance, an active atheist is psycho-logically as unsound as a rabid theist.

Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics

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