In #datamining, we are bored by linear regression. It does not work very well and I have personally never seen a qqplot that was strictly on a line, anyway. But besides this practical approach, linear regression (still very popular in social science) seems to have a strong theoretical foundation in the central limit theorem. But here comes an argument derived from Hegel's Logic, why linear regression has no existence at all: Hegel distinguishes between "bad" infinity and real infinity. Bad infinity is the result of infinite progress. Take 2:7 as an example. If you want to solve this division, you will end up with 0.285714285714... and so on (infinite). Or think about the rock, paper, scissor game: You want to take the good old rock, but then you think, your opponent might think that you want to take rock and therefore will choose paper. So you want to choose scissor, but then you think, your opponent knows that you wanted to take rock but he realized that you had rea...
