Holistic modeling: an objection to Weisberg's weighted feature-matching account

DOI10.1007/S11229-016-1018-ZMaRDI QIDQ1708795zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Wei Fang

Publication date 27 March 2018

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-016-1018-z

zbMATH Keywords

holisticmodelscientific representationset-theoreticsimilarityweighted feature-matching accountWeisberg

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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