Unfortunately, a very large fraction of the philosophic literature in all three centuries has suffered from a quite simplistic picture of the Principia itself.
Its Rotten Tomatoes consensus reads: "While an improvement on its predecessor, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer is nevertheless a juvenile, simplistic picture that has little benefit beyond its special effects".
Be that as it may, many philosophers of simulation, including those discussed in this section, have chosen the latter path partly as a way of drawing attention to ways in which the message lurking behind Gilbert and Troitzch's quoted claim paints an overly simplistic picture of experiment.
Postmodernism suggests that the dualistic attitudes of modernism, which began as early as the Enlightenment, paint an overly simplistic picture of reality.
Though Bohr's model was superseded by quantum mechanics, it still offers a useful, though simplistic, picture of atomic transitions.
Reviewer #3: This reviewer considers that the clear cut difference between the two models can only be formulated within the context of the Shadlen et al 96 model (recently revised by Haeffner et al), which the authors seem to take a ground truth, but which is itself a useful but fairly crude and simplistic picture of how the decision is being made), i.e. totally feedforward, no dynamics, etc).
Based on a simplistic, incomplete picture of teacher transfers where the market operates through a rigidly stable queuing process, introducing simple changes to seniority rules could lead to a more efficient (and/or more equitable) allocation of teachers, leading to improvements in poor schools that lose these experienced teachers4.
There are of course known examples that tarnish this simplistic picture of growth as an unwavering exponential process fully captured by an internal capacity for expansion, such as accumulation of toxic products, changes in pH, or declines in dissolved O2.
However, this is no simplistic picture book.
