There is a dictum, ``The Map is Not the Territory''[1]   Most real, applied problems are not accessible solely from ``the map''. To do practical things with mathematical modelling one must be willing to get grubby with details, subtleties, and exceptions. Nothing can substitute for knowing the territory first-hand.

[1] Alfred Korzybski, 1933, Science & Sanity

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