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A formal interpretation or model is the assignment of meaning to the symbol and truth-values to the sentence of a formal language. The study of formal interpretations is called formal semantics. Rudolf Carnap, in his Introduction to Semantics makes a distinction between formal interpretations which are logical interpretation (also called mathematical interpretation or logico-mathematical interpretation) and descriptive interpretation (also called a factual interpretation). An interpretation is... full article at wikipedia

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An individual's reality model can be right or wrong, complete or incomplete. As a rule it will be both incomplete and wrong...	Dietrich Dörner	The Logic of Failure
Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.	George E. P. Box	Empirical Model-Building and Response Surfaces
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