[colordrops]

Apparently Hawking coined this term in 2010. Robert Anton Wilson coined a similar term, "Model Agnosticism", all the way back in 1977 in his book Cosmic Trigger:

"The Copenhagen Interpretation is sometimes called "model agnosticism" and holds that any grid we use to organize our experience of the world is a model of the world and should not be confused with the world itself. Alfred Korzybski, the semanticist, tried to popularize this outside physics with the slogan, "The map is not the territory." Alan Watts, a talented exegete of Oriental philosophy, restated it more vividly as "The menu is not the meal."

[tomthe]

"All models are wrong, some are useful" describes it very well for me. It still amazes me, how late I really understood this and how many intelligent people not fully understand it.

[jerrysievert]

he expanded on that quite a bit in quantum psychology (1990), giving an expanded treatise on the software of the mind and how it maps our interpretation of reality.

quite a good read if you liked his previous works.