The way we know something conceptually is to break it down into discrete units, bounded and separated by the clear demarcations we impose on the …

The map and the territory

—— Bruno Latour offered an even further element to the consideration of the difference between the map and the territory through the pass.

In his large and densely populated book An Enquiry into Modes of Experience he offers some 13 or 14 different modes, or epistemological paths that reality arises to experience.

All of which are configurations of the main element of a pass.

To illustrate this, he offers that there is no reason why a map should be able to represent a trail up a mountain that we would be able to comprehend. And yet indeed we can “follow” the map to get to the vista. The gap between to map and that actual mountain, he poses, is overcome by the pass.