No, you don’t. You learn to regurgitate back a set of facts and you learn some templates into which you put some numbers and get some other (presumably correct) numbers as output. This is not science.
the opinion that “matching the territory could be somehow important” is just an opinion that some people share and others don’t
That, um, depends. Most people believe that “matching the territory” with respect to gravity is important—in particular, they don’t attempt to fly off tall buildings. The issues arise in situations where “matching the territory” is difficult and non-obvious. Take a young creationist—will any of his actions mismatch the reality? I don’t expect so. If he’s a regular guy leading a regular life in some town, there is no territory around him which will or will not matched by his young creationist beliefs. It just doesn’t matter to him in practice.
No, you don’t. You learn to regurgitate back a set of facts and you learn some templates into which you put some numbers and get some other (presumably correct) numbers as output. This is not science.
That, um, depends. Most people believe that “matching the territory” with respect to gravity is important—in particular, they don’t attempt to fly off tall buildings. The issues arise in situations where “matching the territory” is difficult and non-obvious. Take a young creationist—will any of his actions mismatch the reality? I don’t expect so. If he’s a regular guy leading a regular life in some town, there is no territory around him which will or will not matched by his young creationist beliefs. It just doesn’t matter to him in practice.