An author’s choice of what to map shapes what gets neglected.

Evidence

Every essay is a map.” I wanted to map the American constitution, and so I largely neglected mapping the terrain of the current scholarly debate. — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 105

Categorization

• SEED: The ‘every essay is a map’ framing and the trade-off between mapping the subject and mapping the scholarly debate could seed a piece on choosing what to map in one’s own writing.
• XREF: connects to: Alternative maps of interpretation yield fresh perspective on familiar material — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 319; A disjunctive syllogism requires mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive alternatives — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 945; Design choices optimizing for one task can cripple performance on the real task — Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem, 1221 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Binary schematization’s completeness claim masks the imposition behind any dichotomy #expands (0.78)
• What is form in one context can be content in another. #expands (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 53
• Alternative maps of interpretation yield fresh perspective on familiar material #expands (0.65) — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 319
• Medieval Arabic maps of Africa mixed myth with empirical knowledge #exemplifies (0.60)
• A disjunctive syllogism requires mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive alternatives #exemplifies (0.55) — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 945
• Design choices optimizing for one task can cripple performance on the real task #complicates (0.45) — Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem, 1221