"Connaître la réalité signifie construire des systèmes de transformations qui correspondent plus ou moins adéquatement à la réalité"

Simplified Meaning:

Understanding the world means building ways to change things that match what happens in real life. Imagine you are trying to learn how a bike works. You take it apart, see how the gears and chains move, and put it back together in a way that it still works the same. This helps you understand the bike because you figured out how its parts fit together and affect each other. In the same way, to truly know something in the world, you need to create models or systems that reflect how things actually are, even if they are not perfect. For instance, weather predictions use computer models to guess future weather by simulating how different factors interact. By doing this, we get a better grasp of weather patterns, even though our models are never 100% accurate. So, by creating these systems, we learn and understand more about reality and can make better decisions based on that understanding.