What sound does a spherical cow make?
Moo
mOo?
On Tue, Oct 8, 2024, 5:51 PM glen wrote:
I agree. But it depends fundamentally on what one means by all
those words: "model", "wrong", "useful" - 3 unknowns, assuming
"some" and "all" are understood as quantifiers and "are" is
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 c
On Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 3:06 PM Jon Zingale 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
I agree. But it depends fundamentally on what one means by all those words: "model", "wrong", "useful" - 3
unknowns, assuming "some" and "all" are understood as quantifiers and "are" is understood as
membership/identity. The problem with the EO Wilson aphorism was that it was too short. This one
Moo
On Tue, Oct 8, 2024, 5:51 PM glen wrote:
> I agree. But it depends fundamentally on what one means by all those
> words: "model", "wrong", "useful" - 3 unknowns, assuming "some" and "all"
> are understood as quantifiers and "are" is understood as
> membership/identity. The problem with the
