But language necessarily, Korzybski emphasized, abstracts from the empirical world. He called this doctrine "non-allness. At best, language can create an incomplete, albeit useful, map of our environment. To defeat our Aristotelian habits of mind, to help humankind achieve what he called "sanity," Korzybski created a mental and spiritual training regime. He recommended that we achieve a "consciousness of abstracting," an awareness of our own process of abstracting the world, in order to gain a better understanding of what he called "silence on the objective level," the fundamentally non-linguistic nature of reality.