Of course, what counts as useful in any given controversy will depend on your perspective.
Because motif counts as well as exponential random graph models are based on probability estimates, they appear very useful to compare networks of different size.
The personality counts as well.
For similar reasons, Woodward's (2003) theory of explanation might also be counted as a pragmatic1 theory since it connects explanation with the provision of information that is useful for manipulation and control unquestionably useful goals.
He speed-read books looking for material that he counted as useful meaning anything that fitted into his mosaic of misplaced historical analogy and pseudoscience.
They are as useful as a sundial!
Make everything as useful as possible.
But drugstore brands are just as useful.
Theirs must count as one of the most useful literary friendships ever struck up.
Feelings count for as much as facts.
A more general worry is that the very notion of belief is not theoretically useful if the criteria for what counts as a belief become too loose.
