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What is a model?

All models are wrong; but some are useful. Now it would be very remarkable if any system existing in the real world could be exactly represented by any simple model. However, cunningly chosen parsimonious models often do provide remarkably useful approximations. For example, the law

relating pressure

, volume

and temperature

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