A single proposition, drilled vertically through the strata of how it has been meant. The surface is recent and articulate; each layer beneath speaks an older idiom that can no longer quite hear the ones above it. Descend.
The map is not the territory.
No model contains the system it models. Every description is a lossy compression of the thing described — and the loss is exactly where the world goes on living without it.
Let m be any map of a place p. Then m belongs to the signs and p to the things, and the two share no member: m ∈ S, p ∈ T, S ∩ T = ∅.
Signum aliud est, res significata aliud: the sign is one thing and the thing signified another. To take the figure for the substance is the first error the schools learn to name.
Whatever you can draw of it is already not it. The name is a fence raised around an absence; lean on the fence and your hand passes through.
this is not that