Everything in NLP follows from it: people respond to their maps, so map-edits change responses. The most useful humility available in one sentence.
The Map Is Not the Territory
The founding presupposition, borrowed from general semantics: our internal representations of reality are constructions, and operating on the construction is working one step removed from the world.
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ShriViral Manek, Institute of NLP India · reviewed 30 Sept 2026