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Jaqen 2 points ago +5 / -3

All models are wrong.

What do you base that statement on? A model? Faith?

See how quickly science resolves back to its origins in philosophy and theology?

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Watermelons 15 points ago +15 / -0

It's a quote by George Box, a statistician.

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Jaqen -2 points ago +3 / -5

I like it but do the thought experiment, answer my questions.

As you do so, note you have moved beyond science, into something else. Probably philosophy, perhaps theology, maybe metaphysics.

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Watermelons 10 points ago +10 / -0

Models attempt to quantify and explain real world phenomenon. They are always wrong because we can never know the truth with absolute certainty. I.e there is always uncertainty.

Philosophy exists upstream of mathematics. I've never thought otherwise.