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The relationship has also been expressed in other terms, such as "the model is not the data", "[[all models are wrong]]", and [[Alan Watts]]' "The menu is not the meal." The concept is thus quite relevant throughout [[ontology]] and [[ontology (information science)|applied ontology]] regardless of any connection to [[general semantics]] per se (or absence thereof). Its avatars are thus encountered in [[semantics]], [[statistics]], [[logistics]], [[business administration]], [[semiotics]], and many other applications.
A frequent coda to "[[all models are wrong]]" is that "all models are wrong (but some are useful)," which emphasizes the proper framing of recognizing '''map–territory differences'''—that is, how and why they are important, what to do about them, and how to live with them properly. The point is not that all maps are useless; rather, the point is simply to maintain [[critical thinking]] about the discrepancies: whether or not they are either negligible or significant in each context, how to reduce them (thus [[iterative and incremental development|iterating]] a map to become a better version of itself), and so on.
=="A map is not the territory"==
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