Kathryn Blackmond Laskey schrieb:
> A briefer quote from George Box: "All models are wrong, but some are useful."
> (01)
A Popper-inspired sentence: All models are false, some are truthlike,
and some of the latter are useful. (02)
Ingvar J (03)
> K
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> At 9:38 AM -0500 6/13/07, John F. Sowa wrote:
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>> That is certainly true:
>>
>>
>>> [KL] For the record, "logically correct solution that yields
>>> mathematically precise answers" does not equate with "good." A
>>> logically correct, mathematically precise answer can be AWFUL if it
>>> is answers the wrong question. An imprecise answer from a system
>>> riddled with inconsistency can be WONDERFUL if it is a close enough
>>> approximation to the answer to the right question.
>>>
>> A comment that has been attributed to Lord Kelvin:
>>
>> Better a rough answer to the right question
>> than an exact answer to the wrong question.
>>
>> John Sowa
>>
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