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--Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
Pretty sure the lies are out there too. I think I prefer Scully.
The quote can be said to mean that reality ("out there") doesn't lie -- falsehoods are in the map, not in the territory. But truth is what corresponds to reality...
Other people's maps are part of my territory.
Quibble: "Your" territory?
This point is also relevant to Eliezer's post on truth as correspondance. A belief can start unentangled with reality, but once people talk about it, the belief itself becomes part of the territory.
Yes, this.
Other people's expressions of verbal symbols that are not even part of their map are also part of the territory.