Paul Diesing: "The most serious deficiency of implicit formal theories is that the verbal language disguises the abstractness of the theory … The consequence of the fallacy of misplaced concreteness is that the theory looks too convincing to its proponents … He becomes the prisoner of his own logical model and is rendered incapable of seeing reality from any other standpoint …" Mistaking a map for the territory. Classic error. Virtually everyone makes it by mistaking their map...
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