a: Good medicine ~
b: a good approximation in mathematics:
What:
"As long as the part which one tolerates [that is, the margin of error] is small, the solution is quite correct and the person arriving at it is quite skilled. Therefore, artful conjecturing in medicine is similar". 'Abd al-Latif even goes so far as to describe medicine as 'the knowledge of probabilities (al-ma'rifa al-akthariya)'.
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Date: Jun 5 2017 11:42 PM
# 11242 Critique Analogy