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by povik 2037 days ago
> But to think that we know anything about anything is frankly pure arrogance.

It would be arrogant to conflate a model and the subject being modeled, but we have some pretty successful models for physical reality, and you won't bring me to say we don't know anything about it.

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Yes that’s fair. We know things that are within the model (i.e. math). Some models are very useful, after all.