For any concept, you can find a sufficiently rich context that makes the concept inadequate. The concept would be useful in simpler situations, but breaks down in more sophisticated ones. It’s still recognized in them, by the same procedure that allows to recognize the concept where it is useful.
A concept is only genuinely useless if there hardly are any contexts where it’s useful, not if there are situations where it isn’t. You are too eager to explain useful tools away by presenting them with existence proofs of insurmountable challenges and the older cousins that should get deployed in them.
See also: least convenient possible world, fallacy of compression, scales of justice fallacy.
For any concept, you can find a sufficiently rich context that makes the concept inadequate. The concept would be useful in simpler situations, but breaks down in more sophisticated ones. It’s still recognized in them, by the same procedure that allows to recognize the concept where it is useful.
A concept is only genuinely useless if there hardly are any contexts where it’s useful, not if there are situations where it isn’t. You are too eager to explain useful tools away by presenting them with existence proofs of insurmountable challenges and the older cousins that should get deployed in them.
See also: least convenient possible world, fallacy of compression, scales of justice fallacy.