Models as Felicitous Falsehoods
I argue that models enable us to understand reality in ways that we would be unable to do if we restricted ourselves to the unvarnished truth. The point is not just that the features that a model skirts can permissibly be neglected. They ought to be neglected. Too much information occludes patterns...
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| Idioma: | Inglês |
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Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
2022-06-01
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| Col·lecció: | Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology |
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| Accés en línia: | https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/84576 |
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