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The best introduction to taxonomies: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Emporium_of_Benevolent_Knowledge https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Empori
by BLKNSLVR 4y ago
The best introduction to taxonomies:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Emporium_of_Benevolent_Knowledge https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Emporium_of_Benevo...
Jorge Borges also has written something directly related to 'the map is not the terrain'
- theoa 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Exactitude_in_Science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Exactitude_in_Science
- BLKNSLVR 4y agoAnd wrapping irony around itself in Borges' special way, parts of the map actually become the terrain: "tattered Fragments of the Map are still to be found, Sheltering an occasional Beast or beggar..."