Tradeoff of the day

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This increase in powers of representation is thus qualified by a positivist disclaimer, by an implicit and generalized footnote that accompanies all scientific work. It states that we know nothing of reality because all we have are models that are constructed by us.

A. Nordmann. Collapse of Distance: Epistemic Strategies of Science and Technoscience. 2006.

Math doesn't have this problem.