Explanatory schema and the process of model building

DOI10.1007/S11229-018-1686-YMaRDI QIDQ2052635zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Collin Rice, Yasha Rohwer, André Ariew

Publication date 26 November 2021

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-1686-y

zbMATH Keywords

modelingexplanationidealization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of mathematical modeling (00A71) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30)

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