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Models And Method

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

D. W. Theobald
D. W. Theobald
Affiliation:
The Manchester College of Science and Technology.
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The construction of models plays a vital part in scientific thought.And many questions about the characteristics demanded of a good model, and the implications of using models are often asked by philosophers of science. Although models are frequently and successfully used in scientific explanation, this does not imply that they are a necessary feature of such explanation, though it does provide some justification for their use. However, any attempt to provide a model for a scientific theory undoubtedly leads to a clearer understanding of that theory. Models and theories are often considered as separate features in a scientific explanation, but a theory is not usually devised and then consciously provided with a model.

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Philosophy , Volume 39 , Issue 149 , July 1964 , pp. 260 - 267
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1964

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