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Book Two: Language and Thought / Chapter 9: The Little Man Who Wasn't There / Delusional Worlds / p.103 / How do ... Other ways have already been suggested: to be are of the process of abstracting and /to realize fully that words never "say all" about anything/. The abstraction ladder -- an adaptation of a diagram originated by Alfred Korzybski to illustrate visually the relationship between words, perceptions, and "objects" -- is designed to help us understand and remain conscious of the process of abstracting. (English)
abstraction ladder