"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."

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About Alfred Korzybski

Alfred Korzybski was a Polish-American philosopher and scholar who developed general semantics. He is widely known for the formulation "the map is not the territory" and for his book Science and Sanity. He was born on July 3, 1879, and died on March 1, 1950.

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