> A professor of mine once said to me that all teaching was a process of lying, and then of replacing the lies with successively better approximations of the tr

> A professor of mine once said to me that all teaching was a process of lying, and then of replacing the lies with successively better approximations of the truth. In philosophy of sciences, it is called "idealization" and "concretization". Many philosophers from Poznan even name this philosophy of science as "Marxist philosophy of science", since Marx uses the technique of idealization and concretization in his work "Das Kapital".