“The lesson to be learned from the violence inherent in the model-world relationship, in other words, is that there is an inherent
conflict between the power of analysis and conceptualization, on the one hand, and sensitivity to the infinite richness, on the other.”
“The lesson to be learned from the violence inherent in the model-world relationship, in other words, is that there is an inherent conflict between the power of analysis and conceptualization, on the one hand, and sensitivity to the infinite richness, on the other.”
Statisticians have a name for this trade off.
And what is the name?
Bias/variance tradeoff.