Re:Mental Model Fallacy (2018)
by catlifeonmars on Thursday April 23, 2020 @03:20AM
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Also, building and learning taxonomies allows for discovery of new knowledge. This is especially obvious in mathematics, where you start with rigorously-defined symbols and operations and very little knowledge, and then manipulate the symbols to gain more knowledge. Indeed, it could be argued that taxonomies are necessary for understanding.
As others have said, this is clearly untrue. Consider algorithms, for instance. We have categories like dynamic programming, and genetic algorithms (a subcategory of evolutionary algorithms).
Building taxonomies is the easy part, and occurs long before a field is 'completed'.