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Originally Posted by tompe
What is the point with this argument? You always do simplifications and assumptions when you apply a theory. That does not mean that the theory is in any way less accurate or worse.
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Let me add a
second reply to to your questioning my argument.
A) It is quite common to make simplifications and to take advantage of assumptions when applying a theory.
In doing so one introduces chaos in the description. How much and of which nature, it is sometimes within one's control, sometimes less so.
In this way, the gap between reality and the predictions of the theory widens, as one uses a week version of the original theory, now contaminated by chaos. By the other hand, the theory can be applied. Good. In some applications this is essential, very useful, beneficial, worth of encomium, and what else. I have absolutely nothing against theories, I just reaffirm the impossibility of seeing through Plato's screen, and therefore the actuality of the metaphor.
B) The fact of applying a week version of the theory does not mean that the theory is in any way less accurate or worse. In fact, in your assertion, the original theory is kept well closed in a drawer.