'Whatever you might say something "is", it is not.' Whatever we might say belongs to the verbal level and not to the un-speakable, objective levels.

'what we see, hear, feel, speak about or infer, is never it, but only our human abstraction about 'it'

'A map is not the territory.'

'Identity is invariably false to facts.'

'Every identification is bound to be in some degree a misevaluation'

-- Korzybski