Understanding the Nature of Scientific Errors
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The article discusses the nuanced concept that in science and philosophy, models and theories are not absolutely right or wrong but are often incomplete or more or less useful, emphasizing the importance of degrees and types of wrongness, and challenging the notion of absolute truth in scientific understanding.
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