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[-] SpeakerToLampposts@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

That's true of pretty much everything. As John Von Neumann put it, "Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations."

[-] Kratzkopf@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 weeks ago

All models are wrong, some models are useful

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