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This reads as a concise description of abstraction, finding a way to represent a complicated reality without having to process every part of it directly. It can be taken to mean that statistics and economics are tools for simplification, not denial, a way to make large problems manageable. It lands in work that requires turning messy reality into something usable and testable.
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