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Only the most naive scientist believes that the perfect model is the one that perfectly represents reality. Such a model would have the same drawbacks as a map as large and detailed as the city it represents, a map depicting every street, every park, every building, every tree, every pothole, every inhabitant. Were such a map possible, its specificity would defeat its purpose: to generalise and abstract.

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However, only a map with the minutest of detail can be useful for detailed study.
Such maps or models, therefore, do not reflect complete reality.
The best maps, therefore, focus more on the abstraction of reality rather than on the accurate reproduction of human endeavour.
The maps are, after all, only a reflection of reality.

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Accepted Answer

Whatever their purpose, maps, and models must simplify as much as they mimic the world.

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