"No reflecting reader can deny that the passing off, on an unsuspecting listener, of noises for words, or symbols, must be classified as a fraud, or that we pass to the other fellow contagious semantic disturbances. This brief remark shows, at once, what serious ethical and social results would follow from investigation of correct symbolism....The abuse of symbolism is like the abuse of food or drink: it makes people ill, and so their reactions become deranged." --Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity, Chapter VI, "On Symbolism", p. 83, 84.
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