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An Interpretation of Scientific Models Involving Analogies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Jack C. Carloye
Jack C. Carloye*
Affiliation:
Washington State University
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Extract

In order to account for the actual function of analogue models in extending theories to new domains, we argue that it is necessary to analyze the inference involved into a complex two dimensional form. This form must go horizontally from descriptions of entities used as a model to redescriptions of entities in the new domain, and it must go vertically from an observation language to a theoretical language having a different and exclusive logical syntax. This complex inference can only be intelligible if we interpret theoretical terms in a platonic manner, a la Körner.

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Research Article
Information
Philosophy of Science , Volume 38 , Issue 4 , December 1971 , pp. 562 - 569
Copyright
Copyright © 1971 by The Philosophy of Science Association

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