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Useful = correct. Or so some might say.
by whiddershins 6y ago
Useful = correct.
Or so some might say.
- naniwaduni 6y agowell they're not very useful then, are they.
- klyrs 6y agoNewtonian physics ain't "correct" but it's damned useful.
- smt88 6y agoAnalogies are, almost by definition, "incorrect". They're still very useful.
- PeterisP 6y agoIn the traditional map vs territory parlance, the perfectly correct map is an identical copy of the terrain - needless to say, that's not very useful for most use cases, and we prefer a model that's known to be incorrect in many aspects e.g. it's shrunk at 1:24000 scale and has various types of detail intentionally omitted, making it less correct but more useful for the intended purpose.