The Map Is Not the Territory
Alfred Koryzbski a Polish philosopher, engineer, mathematician, and writer who emigrated to the United States, and died here in 1950, is best known for the idea that the word for a thing is not the thing. Hence the quote, “The map is not the territory.”
His book Science and Sanity is a dense, difficult but thoroughly interesting book that pulls in many disciplines of study. He repeatedly hammers again and again on the notion that a word cannot do the thing justice,