I believe you mean “you will have incomplete information about any system you could really have.”
Operationally, it’s a distinction without a difference.
Since the way this whole nest of comments got started was whether it makes sense to identify entropy with incomplete information, I’d say my reply to you was made with loaded language :P
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I believe you mean “you will have incomplete information about any system you could really have.”
Operationally, it’s a distinction without a difference.
Since the way this whole nest of comments got started was whether it makes sense to identify entropy with incomplete information, I’d say my reply to you was made with loaded language :P