A paradigm too close to raw reality yields no ordering or predictive power

Evidence

Yet it suffers even more than the states paradigm in being too close to reality. The world may be chaos but it is not totally without order. An image of universal and undifferentiated anarchy provides few clues for understanding the world, for ordering events and evaluating their importance, for predicting trends in the anarchy, for distinguishing among types of chaos and their possibly different causes and consequences, and for developing guidelines for governmental policy makers. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 70

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines why the chaos paradigm fails despite descriptive accuracy: it mirrors reality too closely to organize it.
• XREF: connects to: Cosmic horror offers no relief between determinism and chaos — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 290