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>all formal models are proven to be wrong

Your point certainly holds true for any physical entity as far as we know - probabilistic quantum effects, Heisenberg's Uncertainty, chaotic systems, and all that.

However if you were to model a theoretical entity, and given a few more constraints (like strict computability, which precludes a turing-complete systems), you can indeed have correct models. Alas, in practice this is a rather rare example.



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