#epistemology #knowledge #philosophy # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought # Related - [[Philosophy/Epistemology/Rationalism/Rationalism is simulation]] - [[Philosophy/Rationality/Models/The overuse of models]] - [[Philosophy/Rationality/Optimising the universe]] # Simplicity does not necessarily mean truth The fact that [[Plato's allegory|our senses do not reflect physical reality]] result in us, getting often fooled by the received [[Information|information]]. Some theories may appear complex because of their non-intuitiveness, but that does not mean that it is a worse [[The Map is not the Territory|map of the territory]]. For example, non-[[Euclidean|euclidean]] [[Geometry|geometry]] seems more complex to us than [[Euclidean|euclidean]] one, that does not mean that [[Euclidean|euclidean]] is a better map of [[Organic reality|reality]]. ## Examples  Newtonian dynamics is a simpler theory than Einstein's [[Relativity|relativity]], yet it is less accurate because it fails to account for the effects of [[Gravitational Time Dilation|gravitational time dilation]].