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The Belgian [[surrealist]] artist [[René Magritte]] illustrated the concept of "perception always intercedes between reality and ourselves"<ref>Rene Magritte's surrealism to be to illustrate the point that, "perception always intercedes between reality and ourselves". See for example, p. 15–16 [https://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0791434354&id=ZiTpRxkTMwUC&vq=korzybski&dq=Korzybski%2BMagritte&lpg=PA15&pg=PA16&sig=hZWrqDZMqGm7tKpdQfkhM-rCOQY Visual Intelligence: Perception, Image, and Manipulation in Visual Communication] by Ann Marie Barry ([http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/communication/faculty/fulltime/barry/ bio] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051129012811/http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/communication/faculty/fulltime/barry/ |date=2005-11-29 }})</ref> in a number of paintings including a famous work entitled ''[[The Treachery of Images]]'', which consists of a drawing of a pipe with the caption, ''Ceci n'est pas une pipe'' ("This is not a pipe").
In ''[[The Medium Is the Message|Understanding Media]]'', [[Marshall McLuhan]] expanded this argument to electronic media with his introduction of the phrase "[[The medium is the message|The Medium is the Message]]" (and later in the book titled [[The Medium Is the Massage|''The Medium is the Massage'']]
This concept occurs in the discussion of exoteric and esoteric [[religion]]s. [[Exoteric]] concepts are concepts which can be fully conveyed using [[Epithet|descriptors]] and [[language]] constructs, such as [[mathematics]]. [[Esoteric]] concepts are concepts which cannot be fully conveyed except by direct experience. For example, a person who has never tasted an [[apple]] will never fully understand through language what the taste of an apple is. Only through direct experience (eating an apple) that experience can be fully understood.
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