On Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 3:06 PM Jon Zingale <jonzing...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Since we are picking on aphorisms, I wish to add criticism to "all models > are wrong, some are useful". > > To a great extent, the qualities of the thing being modelled matters. For > instance, natural numbers do have crisp, compact properties and can be > modelled by sets. To claim that models are never correct is to deny that > bisimulation ever exists between machines. It is fine, I suppose, as a > world view, but proving bisimulation between things also seems fine. > "Yes, I agree that bisimulation can exist between models or mathematical systems. The original aphorism is about the limits of statistical (or any) models to 'bisimulate' reality." > >
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