It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.
Alfred KorzybskiThe map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map.
Alfred KorzybskiMathematics and logic have been proved to be one; a fact from which it seems to follow that mathematics may successfully deal with non-quantitative problems in a much broader sense than was suspected to be possible.
Alfred Korzybski