“The Aristotelian idea that to understand something you must know what it is has been abandoned in one science after another, for the pragmatic reason that the simple word “is” introduces so many metaphysical assumptions that we can argue forever about them.
[…] when you read anywhere that A is B, it will clarify matters if you translate this as ‘A can be […] modelled by B.’”
- Robert Anton Wilson, Prometheus Rising
