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The CS specific analogy might be, "Abstractions are leaky," or more broadly the, "map is not the territory."

Any complex-phenomena that is modeled with with a simplification will have places where that simplification fails. But models can still be highly useful, you just need to choose an appropriate level of abstraction, accept and manage any tradeoffs with exceptions, and move to better paradigm if one emerges.



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