Could you interpret this sentence?

chengweifeng · 发表于 2007-10-1 11:15:47

How to interpret this sentence,Could anybody who knows tell me?
I guess it is a proverb,but I don't know how to express it in Chinese.

The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat.
A. Rosenblueth, Philosophy of Science, 1945

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pengweicai · 发表于 2007-10-1 15:37:18

cat ?????

ydliu_zn · 发表于 2007-10-2 09:53:29

原帖由 chengweifeng 于 2007-10-1 11:15 发表
How to interpret this sentence,Could anybody who knows tell me?
I guess it is a proverb,but I don't know how to express it in Chinese.

The best material model of a cat is another, or preferab ...

this is a question of philosophy about the essence of everything in the world, so you must translate it from its context...

molen · 发表于 2007-10-2 10:28:36

一切数学模型都是近似的；

关于一只猫的最好的模型是只能是另一只猫，什么有限元啊，变分法啊，分子动力模型啊，神经网络，人工智能啊，统统都是近似和有错误的。

chengweifeng · 发表于 2007-10-2 21:03:47

You all explained it well enough!
Thanks for your time!

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Could you interpret this sentence?

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