When good theories make bad predictions

DOI10.1007/S11229-006-9033-0zbMATH Open1126.03006OpenAlexW2019529313MaRDI QIDQ2460156FDOQ2460156

Authors Vadim Batitsky, Zoltan Domotor 

Publication date 14 November 2007

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-006-9033-0

zbMATH Keywords

discretizationdynamical systemschaoscomputational modelsstochastic modelspredictabilityprobability densitystate spacephilosophy of sciencetheory confirmation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45) Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05)

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