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40 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 19 June 2014 05:56AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 03 July 2014 10:16:42PM *  1 point [-]

I never contradicted that point. Newtonian physics works quite fine in many situations. It is still wrong.

Edit: to expand on that point when we use physics we know that there a certain circumstances in whichwe use classical physics because it is easier and faster and the results are good enough for the precision we need. Other times we use quantum physics or relativity. the decision of which model to use is itself part of the decision-making frameworks and is what I'm talking about. if you chose to use the wrong framework and get incorrect results then your metamodel of which framework to use use to be updated.