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•Re: How do I know what I 'know' is right?by merlyn (Sage) |
on Jul 20, 2003 at 08:01 UTC ( [id://276006]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Every abstraction that is not a tautology contains some lie, and is therefore only applicable to some subset of all cases. The better abstractions cover more cases.
So, everything I know is a lie. I should always be prepared to eject any knowledge I have in light of some abstraction that covers more of the territory. It's all models, but some models are better than others. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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