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Re: Everything I believe may be wrong

Posted by FredPotter on February 14, 2007, at 22:32:00

In reply to Re: Everything I believe may be wrong, posted by Squiggles on February 14, 2007, at 20:00:58

> > and remember . . .
> >
> > The truth is: there is no truth
> >
> I wouldn't go that far; some propositions must be true.
>

JUST an old Zen saying

> > and
> >
> > all models are wrong though some may be useful
>
> Definitely - useful is what we want in medicine; sometimes the discovery of *why* something is useful comes later-- serendipity :-)

Uncanny the way that happens.

THE reason I suppose for models being wrong but sometimes useful is that they are designed to be simplifications. Statistical modellers see them this way anyway but not all math modellers

Fred


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